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Humanitarian Assistance & Resiliency

Courses
Civil-Military Cooperation
Exercise/Gaming Support

Many issues relating to disaster management and humanitarian assistance have their basis in the civilian sector. In the complex humanitarian emergency, the military are requested to intervene and the resulting requirement for cooperation is basis for the COE's creation.

The Humanitarian Assistance & Resiliency Unit strives to enhance, support, collate, etc. those civilian aspects that affect the military's contribution to humanitarian assistance. The COE is a neutral asset to both the military and civilian agencies - we are non-operational and non-military. The Unit spends a significant portion of its time teaching the military about civilian agencies - who they are, how they operate, why they can/can't work along side the military - and, to a lesser extent, the civilian agencies about the military - their rules of engagement, legal obligations, assets they bring to the operation.

The Unit makes and maintains contacts with individual humanitarian practitioners and agencies around the world. These contacts are vital in getting humanitarian participation in military gaming and simulation exercises, as well as purely civilian conferences, workshops, seminars, and training. Various subject-matter-experts (professionals working in a particular subject area) are also brought in to augment COE-sponsored courses and lectures.

In these ways, the Humanitarian Assistance Unit performs the same function on the civilian side as the Peacekeeping Unit does on the military side. Both units together provide COE with a solid base from which it can effectively and efficiently respond to both sides of the civil-military equation.

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