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End State and Exit Strategies in Complex Contingencies Seminar
Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Manila, Republic of the Philippines
September 22 - 26, 2003

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The United Nations, the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America collaborated on a multinational event designed to encourage dialogue on issues in modern peace operations. On behalf of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, the Department of National Defense hosted and co-sponsored the seminar-game, with additional assistance from National Defense College of the Philippines.

This event was the 13th in a series of related conferences, seminars, tabletop games and workshops, and focuses on end states and exit strategies in complex contingencies. The focus of the program was on networking, sharing information, and improving awareness among the participants, which they then take back to their home countries.

More than 50 participants represented 21 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu and the United States

On the first day of the seminar-game, participants were briefed by a group of subject matter experts, individuals acknowledged as having considerable personal experience in a subject. Topics covered included Evolving Peace Operations, Humanitarian Operations, Role of the Military, and Interagency Planning. These individuals role-played the actual positions of the senior leadership team found within a typical United Nations Peacekeeping Operations Mission for added realism, including a Special Representative to the Secretary General, Force Commander, Civilian Police Commissioner and Humanitarian Coordinator. As problems were presented, the participants dispersed into smaller working groups to discuss the issues raised. They then elected a group presenter to report back their findings to senior leaders and their fellow participants.

Specific aspects of peace operations that the seminar explored were:

• The importance of indicators and measures of effective as building blocks to getting to the end state, both the military and the mission as a whole;
• The process involved in determining a desired end state and planning for achieving a viable exit strategy;
• Determining measures of effectiveness to know when a desired end state has been achieved, necessitating a shift to exit strategies;
• Lessons learned from recent operations.

Philippine peacekeeping forces have benefited from gathering and disseminating shared experiences and ideas gained through their participation in 12 of the 13 events, and by contributing to the development of standardized generic training modules of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations’ Training and Evaluation Service. Presently, the Philippine Government has PNP personnel to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) Sixty-two (62) PNP personnel are presently deployed in UNMIK and one hundred five (105) are deployed in UNTAET. For more information on Philippine peacekeeping activities, visit this website: http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/training/pk_training_centers/cunpk.htm

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Past Asia Pacific Peace Operations Capacity Building Program Events:

Philippines 2000
Thailand 2000
Bangladesh 2000
Malaysia 2001
Nepal 2002
Indonesia 2002
Mongolia 2002
USA 2002
Thailand 2002
Japan 2003
Rep. of Korea 2003
Philippines 2003
India 2004
Thailand 2004
USA 2004
Mongolia 2004
Fiji 2005
Sri Lanka 2005
Manila 2005
Malaysia 2005
Honolulu 2005
Malaysia 2006
Phnom Penh 2007
Honolulu 2007