A Framework for NGO-Military Collaboration

Abstract

What do military professionals need to know about NGOs? The literature on NGOs includes very little about NGO-military relationships in troubled areas. Moreover, the U.S. military fails to convey or encourage an adequate understanding of NGOs in its publications and mid-career military education. Drawing abductively from scholarly literature and inductively from case studies and practitioner interviews, I theorize that the efficacy of NGO-military collaboration varies with the type of NGO (INGO or LNGO) and the type of operation. I crystallize this argument into a typology of NGO-military outcomes. I find that military cooperation with international NGOs is most productive during humanitarian-assistance and disaster-relief operations, whereas military cooperation with local NGOs is most productive during conflict and post-conflict operations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 13, 2013
Accession Number
ADA599122

Entities

People

  • Glenn B. Penner

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Education
  • Health Services
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Information Exchange
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Applications
  • Military Education
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • National Governments
  • Reasoning
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design