Civil Military Interaction

This training course is in response to the report, Greening the Blue Helmets: Environment, Natural Resources and UN Peacekeeping Operations, released by UNEP. The report analyses how peacekeeping missions around the world affect, and are affected by natural resources and the broader environment, and notes that through the adoption of a 2009 Environmental Policy, UN Peacekeeping has a robust platform for progress in reducing its environmental impact

This report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how peacekeeping operations affect and are affected by natural resources and environmental conditions. The report is divided into two main parts. Part 1 reviews the environmental management of peacekeeping operations and showcases good practices, technologies and behaviours that have already been adopted. Part 2 examines the role that peacekeeping operations have played in stabilizing countries where violent conflicts have been financed by natural resources - including diamonds, gold, timber and oil - or driven by grievances over their ownership, access and control.

A searchable library of FAO topics of lessons learned , best practices and e-leanring

An online magazine providing the latest news and views on how Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) are developing across the globe. The focus is on spatial information policy and strategy, legal and organisational issues, as well as pratical implementation challenges and successes. Further it acts as a clearing house for information on SDI-related standards, transnational legislation, open source and open data principles, and current debates on key issues as they arise, from key stakeholders in the geospatial world.

On 08 July 2012, a decade after the first Tokyo Conference, governments, international organisations and others will re-convene in that same city to pledge assistance to Afghanistan for the remainder of the transition process and beyond 2014. This page features the latest developments and outcomes pertaining to the Tokyo Conference end research related to the transition in Afghanistan

This is an interactive map of Arfrica with bookmarking to resources for each country

the intent of this handbook is not to explain how CALL does business. Rather, it takes a holistic look at what CALL does today and combines that with numerous, successful LL programs to lay a foundation for a "generic" LL capability that can be used as a "menu" of options to develop your own LL program. There are no hard-and-fast rules for how to set up an LL program. Typically, any LL effort will depend on what the organization is trying to achieve and its level of resourcing. Every organization must develop its own way of working with observations, insights, lessons, and best practices that suits the nature of the knowledge it requires and its organizational culture

This publication provides a synthesis of UNHCR's flagship publication, The State of the World's Refugees: In Search of Solidarity http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199654758.do

The IASC Humanitarian Early Warning Service (HEWSweb) is an inter-agency partnership project aimed at establishing a common platform for humanitarian early warnings and forecasts for natural hazards. The main objective of HEWSweb is to bring together and make accessible in a simple manner the most credible early warning information available at the global level from multiple specialized institutions

The vision of NDU Press is to lead the National Defense University Enterprise in publishing and disseminating vital and complex defense and national security scholarship in a variety of media to inform and influence defense and policy decisionmakers, as well as the joint professional military education community and interested public

The Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) is a landmark grant-making fund to support organisations working in countries and regions facing humanitarian challenges, such as Haiti, Pakistan and East Africa, to develop, test and share new technologies, products and processes that will make humanitarian aid more effective and cost-efficient in the future

"The CKC is a joint and interagency effort of the US Government and Department of Defense. It was created to primarily serve the socio-cultural requirements of the combatant commands. It also seeks to enhance collaboration among the larger socio-cultural research community The idea of collaborating in an open way is to support civilian and military planning and decision-making processes with the very best information and the most diverse views"

This is a list with all USA and International Private Voluntray Organisations (PVO). USAID is addressing NGO with the term PVO

This LibGuide is intended to provide a few starting points to assist you with your research on issues related to the comprehensive approach; in particular, in terms of NATO's cooperation with the European Union. Although the focus of this LibGuide is on the NATO-EU partnership, the comprehensive approach is not limited to the EU; it involves other external organizations and actors as well

MSF page maintained by US Section

The HPCR is an international research and policy program based at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Program offers a multidisciplinary approach to new challenges in the field of humanitarian affairs. Key sectors of activity include: Human security , Conflict management, International humanitarian law

The United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination, (UNDAC) handbook is intended as an easily accessible reference guide for members of an UNDAC team before and during a mission to a disaster or emergency.

UNDAC is part of the international emergency response system for sudden-onset emergencies

A new IDS paper is proposing that human security principles should be used to develop a post 2015 framework.