Peacekeeping Intelligence: Emerging Concepts for the Future - Hardcover

Wies Platje; Robert David Steele; Ben De Jong

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0971566127 ISBN 13: 9780971566125

Publisher: OSS International Press, 2003

Synopsis

Each year millions of people die, are displaced, become diseased, or suffer severe depravations at the hands of rogue states, predatory ethnic groups or tribes, or ruthless terrorist and criminal organizations. Around the globe, while recognizing the important efforts of selected Nation-States and selected Non-Governmental Organizations, only one organization can be said to be truly concerned with global security and global prosperity in the common interest of all mankind: the United Nations. Unfortunately, the United Nations has chosen to ignore the proven process of "intelligence" by confusing it with espionage. Intelligence is not about espionage, it is about rationalized decision-support in which global sources of information in many languages and many mediums (oral, written, imaged) are deliberated collected, processed, analyzed, and presented to decision-makers in order to reduce uncertainty, suggest alternatives, and otherwise make instability more manageable. This book is the first book to bring together a combination of experienced United Nations military commanders, experienced national intelligence leaders, and scholars of United Nations and insurgency history. It combines the results of the first annual conference on peacekeeping intelligence help in The Netherlands in November 2002, with eight seminal works from the past, and three vital references for the future--extracts from the Brahimi Report with intelligence-related footnotes; a completely new Peacekeeping Intelligence Leadership Digest 1.0 distilled from the entire book into 35 pages; and pointers to both the three North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) doctrinal documents on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and to a selective group of recent references, most available online. This book is, in essence, "Ref A" for the future of intelligence at the United Nations.

About this title

From the Publisher

OSS was inspired to publish this book because of three related circumstances: 1) the quality of the conference speakers brought together by the Netherlands Defence College and the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association; 2) the paucity of useful public intelligence in the media, about the 32 failed states, 66 countries with refugees and displaced persons, 59 countries with modern plagues, 33 countries with starving populations, 18 specific genocides on-going today but out of the public eye--and the looming issues of water scarcity, resource wars, and general corruption within Member governments; and 3) the lack of a United Nations strategic intelligence capability suited for confronting manipulative, deceptive, and war-mongering Member states claiming to have credible objective intelligence about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. To this we say: "Never Again." If the United Nations will not accept the challenge of creating a Global Intelligence Council relying predominantly on open sources of information, then such a Council must be created independently of the United Nations. In either case, the global information society must have a structured focal point for evaluating all threats and all conditions in an objective manner that is not subject to political corruption.

From the Author

The Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association and the Netherlands Defence College (sponsors of the conference), and OSS (sponsor of the book), dedicate this reference work to all UN peacekeepers: not only military men and women sent abroad to restore peace and stability and to protect the lives of people in a hostile environment, but also the increasing numbers of law enforcement, relief, and other civilian personnel who help the UN address complex emergencies.

Edition details

• Publisher: OSS International Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0971566127
• ISBN 13: 9780971566125
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 532
• Editor: Robert David Steele, Ben De Jong, Dame Pauline Neville-Jones