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The 23 Civil, Police and Military Relations Course (CPM23), which I have attended from
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3 to 30 of May 2018 was devoted to increase the cooperation and mutual knowledge
between the civil, police and military components, as fundamental pillars of every modern
multidimensional peace
operation, improving their
coordination mechanisms
and their capacity to perform
cohesively and
cooperatively, in accordance
with United Nations doctrine
and strategic guidelines.
During this high level
course, various peacekeeping
themes was analyzed, all
relating civilians as well as
soldiers and police officers to
each other. The most
amazing experience was the CARANA exercise, a fiction to get students to touch the reality
of the field. CARANA is indeed the schematization of a country devastated by war and which
needs to be rebuilt. In this virtual country, security and defense forces as well as the civilians
have the same goal: bring back peace to CARANA. All attendees were involved in this role-
play, with different tasks, like in a true peace operation. Therefore, it was imperative to
collaborate, their actions being complementary. At the same time, it was necessary to
exchange information, to build
common strategies and
synergies of action, to act
together to better cover
potential fields of intervention
in order to be more effective.
Thus, three major components
were set up within the crisis
unit created for the occasion:
¾ first, the military
component whose main
missions were to monitor
the ceasefire line, protect
the population and support
international organizations and non-governmental organizations;
¾ next, the police commission which was responsible for establishing public security,
crime prevention and the facilitation of the rule of law. It ensured that humanitarian issues
were managed by working closely with the national or local police. All these measures were
established in collaboration with military and civilian components to ensure the protection of
vulnerable groups, particularly displaced people;

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