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Disaster Response and Civil-Military Cooperation
Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP
CEO, InSTEDD
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This is the
standard guide.
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Comprehensive
reference.
200 pages of detail.
Free download.
And I have a copy
for you.
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“Stability Operations…shall be given
priority comparable to combat operations…”
US DoD Directive 3000.05
28 November 2005
“We believe that preventing wars
is as important as winning wars.”
US National
October 2007
Strategy Statement
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Smart Power in Humanitarian Support
• Power projection
• Irregular conflicts, reactive transformation
– Millennium Challenge 2002
• CIA 2015 Report
– Resource Wars
• Contextual Intelligence
– Afghanistan Ring Road
– Tajik Road construction
• Chinese, Iranian, Turkish
• Disaster Response in Failed States
Refugee trauma management
Katrina response
In my view,
collaboration
in disaster response
is the single most
critical unmet need.
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Cholera outbreak
What disaster information flow requires (technically)…
Collaboration
Directory
Federation
Social Networking
Reliable
Messaging
Virtual Teaming
Social Metadata
Decision Support
Geospatial
Visualization
Autonomous
Agents
Predictive
Modeling
Distributed
Workflow
Alerting
Report
Generation
Analysis
Data Fusion
Anomaly
Detection
Complex
Adaptive
Systems
Network
Analysis
Text Mining
Spatiotemporal
Analysis
Sensor
Integration
Information Flow
Forms Design
Shared
Ontologies
Schema
Evolution
Translation
Deep Field
Collection
Geocoding
Mesh Synchronization
Storage
Abstraction
Offline Work
Conflict
Resolution
SMS
Integration
Security
Identity
Adapters &
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Transformers
Likely partners in a disaster response:
• UN
– DPKO (18 current Peacekeeping Operations)
– UNDP (166 of 192 countries)
– UN-OCHA
• UNHCR, WFP, WHO, UNICEF
• NGO
– 44,000 and counting
• ICRC
– Prisoners and disrupted families
– Afghanistan: 88 intl /1200 national staff
• IFRC
• World Bank, IMF, DFID, ECHO, USAID, GTZ…
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Casual, distilled
10 Commandments
20 Recommendations
30 Advisories
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A subset of recognized Civ-Mil disaster response needs:
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Language support
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Independent and sustainable power
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Tracking of people, processes, and things
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Visualized information distributed broadly
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Sustainable transition plans with milestones
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Communication one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one
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Collaborative processes between agencies and organizations
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Operational guidelines and organizational charter accessibility
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Objective indicators (and impact metrics) so we know we’re progressing
10. Information collection, analysis, and dissemination, vertical and horizontal
Information flow is almost as vital as water
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Six-fold
communication
redundancy
has sometimes
proved
inadequate, yet…
“Nothing
Navy Theater Surgeon (Forward)
Belle Chasse, New Orleans
Joint Task Force Katrina
worked until
you guys
arrived”
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Climate Change
September 2008
Perhaps the
dominant
medium-term
national security
issue and disaster
response preparedness
requirement.
Now made more
acute by the
global economic crisis.
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Population affected by water disasters
UNDP, 2007
(millions/year)
Disasters by Origin 1970-2005
Origin
1970-79
1980-89
1990-99
2000-2005
Water
776
1498
2034
2135
Geological
124
232
325
233
Biological
64
170
361
420
Total
964
1900
2720
2788
“Data Against Natural Disasters”, UN-OCHA, 2008
Compound Crisis
Tajikistan
Natural disasters (5)
Socio-economic loss (40%)
Emerging infections
Climate Change
Religious extremism
Narcotic trafficking
Poverty / Brain Drain
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Post-Soviet disintegration
Singapore MINDEF
Dave Snowdon’s
Cynefin model of
System Dynamics
Far beyond scenario planning
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Ghani-Lockhart Reconstruction Standards
Fixing Failed States
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1. Collaboration tools
2. Climate change impact
3. Cynefin and Complexity models
4. Civ-Mil Field Coordinator Handbook
Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP
+1 – 360 – 621 – 3592
Rasmussen @ InSTEDD.org
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