International Education Week/Hawaii
R U Informed?

A 20-question interactive quiz, developed by COE graphic artist Brian Miyamoto, debuted at a community event held in observance of Inter-national Education Week. The questions address international natural disasters, complex humanitarian emergencies and peace operations. The quiz gave Hawaii residents instant feedback on the extent of their knowledge in these areas.

Exercise Yama Sakura/Japan
Working Through a Coordinated Response

Carl Cobb, training advisor, supported U.S. Army-Japan's annual bilateral exercise with the Japan Self Defense Force in Sendai. NGO role-play and instruction on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief was provided as part of a bilateral military response to an earthquake in a fictional country.

Tempest Express/Republic of Korea
MPAT Works HA Scenario

Representatives from more than 20 Asia and Pacific nations met in Seoul as part of the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team "Tempest Express" exercise. The Center's LTC Patricia Hastings, MC, and Carl Cobb, training advisor, provided planning support and formal presentations on medical and public health considerations in a natural disaster, measures of effectiveness, and the role of NGOs in complex humanitarian emergencies.

Exercise PKO North 02/El Salvador
Trainers for Hire

Sharon McHale, Training Advisor, added humanitarian inputs into the mid-planning conference for Peacekeeping Operations North, an exercise supported by the Army of Uruguay and sponsored by US Southern Command, with participation from the military forces of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and the U.S. This exercise enhances the readiness of the participants in topics such as legal issues and the role of civilian police in UN peace operations.

III MEF TAP course/Okinawa
Marines TAP the Center...

132 marines in the 3rd Expeditionary Force, including 21 members of the Japanese Self Defense Force and four NGO representatives received a four-day customized course as part of the Training Assistance Program. Peter Leentjes, training advisor, and Drs. Thomas Crabtree and Thomas Ditzler, adjunct faculty from Tripler AMC, provided 19 presentations on the impact of culture, society and religion on operations; transitions; the players; role of the media; health threats and others.

Okinawa Center for Peace Assistance/Okinawa
...Followed by Okinawan Officials

Training advisors also gave a special presentation of selected modules of the III MEF TAP to government officials, academics, business leaders and NGOs, an effort organized by the Okinawa Center for Peace Assistance, a project of the Nansei Shoto Industrial Advancement Center. OCPA seeks to help Okinawa to "contribute to peace and prosperity of the region in a way that can maximize its potential and realize its wish for peace and stability."

CHART Course/Kaneohe, Hawaii
Student Diversity an Asset

The diversity of the attendees to the December 2001 CHART course in Honolulu greatly added to the collective learning experience of both students and instructors. Several state and local health professionals and planners and experienced US State Department personnel mixed with US, New Zealand, Vietnamese and Australian military personnel in this revised CHART offering.  (See CHART Revised)

Cobra Gold 02/Thailand
Field Testing of Handheld Next Step

Handheld computing is an ideal platform to efficiently collect data in the unpredictable environments encountered by aide workers. The applications developed at COE by Drs. Joel Selanikio and Thomas Hasling are designed to benefit the data collector as well as provide population level visibility. Two of the applications are the NutStat Handheld (nutritional assessment) and EpiInfo Handeld (an extension of CDC's EpiInfo) that allows the rapid generation of forms and surveys. Some of the applications will be undergoing additional field-testing during the upcoming Cobra Gold exercise in Thailand.

PKO Game/Kathmandu, Nepal
South Asia Peace Operations Seminar-Game

Thirty-nine participants representing the humanitarian, civilian police and military communities from 20 countries attended this seminar-game, co-sponsored by the Royal Nepalese Army, US Pacific Command, the Center of Excellence and the United Nations Department of Peace Keeping Operations. The purpose was to further develop multilateral, multifunctional, operational-level peace operations skills, and gain insights into capacity-building and training requirements through tactical-level vignettes.

Humanitarian Ops Briefing/Camp Smith, Hawaii
COE Provides Civilian Advisor

Sharon McHale briefed executive staff of US Pacific Command, COE staff and Civil Affairs personnel about her experiences and lessons learned as a civilian advisor to the Coalition Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force stood up by US Central Command and Army Central Command to support humanitarian operations in Afghanistan. She dealt with challenges to planning, the civil-military interface and information sharing in support of an operation in her two-month assignment.

Training of Trainers Course, Bowral, Australia
Sphere: Training Humanitarian Standards

A Sphere Project Training of Trainers Course, organized by the Australian Council for Overseas Aid and sponsored by the Australian Agency for International Development, brought together for one week in March an international cadre of humanitarians from 14 nations to learn the ins and outs of teaching Sphere standards. Sharon McHale, Training Advisor, participated on behalf of the Humanitarian Affairs and Practice Unit, for incorporation into the CHART course curriculum.

WVI Security Workshop/Hawaii
Securing the Unarmed Humanitarian

World Vision International sponsored 45 humanitarians from WVI and other relief organizations for two back-to-back security workshops composed of both classroom and field training to address security threats to NGO personnel in the field. Center staff facilitated the event and provided several presentations. Marine Forces-Pacific supplied meeting and lodging facilities, and managed mine clearance, convoy management and hostage-taking field exercises.

Cable Television Broadcasts/Hawaii
Hawaii Households Get the Picture

Center-produced video programs are being broadcast on local cable community access television channels. Two one-hour shows on issues related to recent terrorist events in the U.S. help to educate the public on health issues and emergency response to biological and chemical threats, and insights into how terrorists think. The programs are part of a new initiative to capture content on videotape for use in multimedia applications and community outreach.

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