Improving Evaluation of Civil-Military Cooperation

Military, governmental, and non-governmental organizations need to collaborate in missions for crisis situations, because no single organization can independently resolve the complex political and socio-economic problems in such situations. Indeed, civil-military cooperation helps organizations to synergistically combine resources, expertise, and efforts when dealing with complex issues during peace-support efforts. It also prevents that organizations engage in duplicative or conflicting efforts. Hence, building and maintaining civil-military cooperation is vital. Civil-military cooperation is, however, often troubled by the diversity among organizations’ objectives, motives, interests, and planning horizons. Even when willing to cooperate, organizations typically strive to maintain their autonomy and differ in how much cooperation they want to engage in. Moreover, organizations typically lack the sophisticated capacities for sensing other organizations’ needs for information and assistance.