| Discussion Issue 3: Regional Roles in Planning and Training for Future UN Missions
Requirement:
With the complex environment faced in future peace support operations, what are the areas where nations in your region will be increasingly or decreasingly interested in working together training for and planning for those complex operations?
Summary of Group Findings:
1 and 2. Specify the considerations for operational planning and operations themselves on a bilateral, multilateral or regional basis.
Bilateral |
Multilateral |
Regional |
Cost sharing |
Cost sharing |
Cost sharing |
Improved interoperability |
Improved interoperability |
Improved interoperability |
Improved response |
Improved response |
Improved response |
Likely to maintain current trend |
Guided by UN processes, challenges |
Develop contingencies and likely responses |
Clear link to national policy |
Greater sustainability |
Greater sustainability |
Constrained by geography |
Greater reach |
Regional solidarity |
Could compromise relationships |
Larger capacity in experiences, capabilities |
Countries could be part of the problem |
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Domination by the larger nation |
SOP? |
Less complex arrangement |
More complicated arrangement, esp. C2 |
Operating together may not imply training together |
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International acceptance |
Different regional perspectives |
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Access to resources (sharing between larger nations) |
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3. Make comments on sharing resources on a bilateral, multilateral or regional basis.
Bilateral |
Multilateral |
Regional |
Limited pool of resources |
Abundance of resources |
Increased resource pool |
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Minimizes the presence of ill equipped people |
Minimizes the presence of ill equipped people |
Both nations are likely to work closer in future |
Greater demand from small partners |
Lead nation to be more responsive |
Minimizes the presence of ill equipped people |
Countries are more likely to be dependent on UN's/lead nation's resources |
Prolonged sharing may be difficult |
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Prolonged sharing may be difficult |
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4. What are general recommendations on PSO training on a bilateral, multilateral or regional basis?
- Address the responsibility of respective nationso Routine, non-mission training
- Training at different levels available at UN and Regional level
- Determine contribution or lead by national organizations
- Bilateral training
- Evolve common procedures
- Hold troop-level exercises
- Multilateral training
- o Focus on exchanges of expertise and experience
- Regional training
- Focus on education rather than field training
- Execute readily available opportunities and subject matter experts
- Develop respective area specific training infrastructure
5. What are specific PSO mission training recommendations on a bilateral, multilateral or regional basis?
- Pre-deployment (in-country)
- Conduct preparatory and specialist training
- In mission
- Provide orientation and induction training
- Provide “currency” training: What is the current situation?
- Post-deployment
- Address transition to a national standard
- Bilateral
- Pre-deployment training is easier, so take this on
- Respective nations need to identify critical areas in which they need to train
- Look for commonality of experiences
- Downside may be the limited experience base to draw from
- Multilateral
- Offers greater choice of experiences
- Achieving consensus on training standards is time consuming
- Scope is more limited
- May be easier to do in mission training
- Broader focus may not meet national interests
- Regional
- Provides for a common focus
- Collective training, i.e. FTX, CPX, etc., is more geographically accessible
- There is a greater alignment of procedures and processes
- Drawback is the experience may be limited (to Timor Leste, for example)
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