Global Security: in Search of a New Vision - Center for Strategic ...

Deal ing with Cri ses in Iraq and the Mid dle East—the Impor tance of Civil-Mil i tary Inte gra tion 141
in Paki stan. These two events alone raised more than $2 bil lion to help sur vi vors, and as I noted ear lier,
the area was rebuilt as it was, not as it could have been.
Afghan i stan is a per fect exam ple of this cycle. Of the orga ni za tions Global Impact funds, 18 NGOs
are sup port ing 58 pro grams, 2 of which have closed because of safety con cerns. In Iraq, 6 orga ni za tions
are sup port ing 17 pro grams and another 6 have closed because of safety con cerns. Some NGOs feel that
being iden ti fied with any gov ern ment or the mil i tary of any coun try endan gers their pro grams and their
safety. On the other hand, in the tough est spots on earth, safety and secu rity need to be pro vided—my
ear lier point about the role of government.
Back to the chart: NGOs are geared toward devel op ment and sustainability but the money and polit i -
cal will are not. What can hap pen with a devel op ing sit u a tion is that the long his tory of work ing in a
region is not rec og nized or respected by those enter ing in cri sis mode and those rela tion ships are not pre -
served for the after math, when sustainability can occur. It is the NGOs’ rela tion ships with local gov ern -
ments and with cit i zens and pro grams that cre ate sta bil ity and the poten tial for sustainable development.
This hap pens again and again: The over looked third quad rant. What we know for cer tain is that disas -
ters will occur; those of us at this work shop could per haps and with rea son able accu racy pre dict where
one will occur and the nature of the event. But next time, let’s use that awful cri sis to push our accu mu -
lated resources and efforts to reha bil i ta tion, giv ing us a better chance of sustainability. I sub mit that this is
where the polit i cal will and the allo ca tion of resources will make the big gest impact. It is where we will
not only save lives but lift nations up to those who con trib ute to the overall good.
MAXIMIZING RESOURCES AND BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
THROUGH GLOBAL REACH
To begin address ing the dif fer ing mis sions, views, and activ i ties of all those con cerned with deliv er ing
human i tar ian assis tance and sta bi liz ing affected regions, Global Impact has devel oped a pro gram named
Global Reach. The mis sion of Global Reach is to max i mize avail able resources to save lives and, most
impor tant, it is supported by preplanning. At this moment, Global Impact has mem o randa of an agree ment
with the United States South ern Com mand, Joint Forces NATO, and a strong work ing rela tion ship with
the United States Euro pean Com mand. These work ing rela tion ships allow the voice of the NGO com -
mu nity to be heard at the most senior lev els of com mand and have resulted in exer cise design, train ing
and par tic i pa tion, and joint human i tar ian assis tance pro jects. The pri mary objec tive is to build trust and
con fi dence. This pro gram is built upon joint effort, and fur ther along it is our inten tion to engage the pri -
vate sec tor as well; they will, after all, profit from rebuilding.
The U.S. mil i tary’s think ing about their con tri bu tion to all this is evolv ing as well. The mil i tary has tra -
di tion ally focused on disas ter relief mis sions, with rel a tively few activ i ties asso ci ated with devel op ment
and sustainability (save for their work involv ing “theater security” mat ters). That is chang ing. For exam -
ple, the Navy’s new Coop er a tive Mar i time Strat egy places real empha sis on devel op ing the abil ity to gen -
er ate lon ger-last ing rela tion ships and part ner ships with other coun tries through the use of naval assets.
Global Reach works across all quad rants—prep a ra tion and relief and, increasingly, development and
sustainability.
Part of the fric tion we have encoun tered as we launch Global Reach, inter alia, is the per cep tion on the
part of some NGOs that hav ing the mil i tary move into devel op ment and sustainability will some how
upset their fund ing streams and con trol over their world. This speaks only to the rea son to work on ways
to do this suc cess fully for all con cerned, espe cially on behalf of those who need the help the most. By
join ing together, part ner ing orga ni za tions com bine their resources and strengths, off set their weak -