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Webinar
HOW DOES PARTICIPATION IN PEACE OPERATIONS SHAPE NATIONAL ARMED FORCES?
IS IT ALL BAD NEWS??
?The global strategic landscape required armed forces to become flexible in both a declaratory, as well as an operational sense. Nowhere is this more prevalent in the scope of and duration of their participation in peace operations on the African continent since the last decade of the 20th century. Taking on various missions under the UN, EU, AU and regional mandates, one can argue that for many armed forces their involvement in peace operations became their de facto operational reality.? This reality does not leave national militaries unscathed. Can
they absorb, adjust and seamlessly migrate between their primary and secondary
roles with ease, or are there hidden dangers and vulnerabilities at play?
This
webinar is directed by the above outlooks and brings together three speakers to offer insights
from their research in three brief discussions to offer some findings.
Date: 28 November 2024 Time: 13:30 – 15:30 (GMT+2)
Format: Webinar
Concept note here?
Programme here?
TEAMS link here
Registration link here?
Enquiries: Prof F. Vre? fvrey@sun.ac.za
?PPT Presentations: NWilen TMandrup AEsterhuyse?
Video: Available here?
Suggested reading here on Peacekeeping armies: how the politics of peace operations shape military organizations, Authors - Nina Wilén and Paul Will?iams. ??
"Specifically, we define a ‘peacekeeping army’ as one which has undertaken institutional reforms to regularly perform the military functions of peacekeeping at a relatively large scale compared to the size of its active force and has prioritized international peacekeeping as one of its top-tier priorities."
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Round Table
BRIEFING TO THE DEFENCE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE OF? PARLIAMENT
?POLITICAL OVERSIGHT OF ARMED FORCES: STRENGTHENING DEFENCE OVERSIGHT IN SOUTH AFRICA'S SEVENTH DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION
On 18 September 2024 a SIGLA organised panel from the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch 肆客足球 presented their research on matters related to political oversight to the defence oversight committee of South Africa's 7th democratic administration.
Defence oversight is a difficult sector given the standing the military holds in society and as a department holding control over the means of coercion that includes legitimate access to violence. While the defence establishment largely remains static and entrenched in its own culture, democratic politics imply regular changes in the political oversight of defence and thus the imperative to keep oversight committee members in step with their role. Experience, organisational learning and familiarity with defence is one grounding. Another pathway to knowledge is the role of academia to communicate research to policy-makers and so cooperate and support democracy-based defence oversight.
Programme director: Prof Michelle Nel (Stell Univ)?
Speakers:
?Prof Lindy Heinecken (Stell Univ): R2P, SDG 16 and the need for oversight Draft PP
Dr W. J. van Rensburg (RF SIGLA Stell Univ)?: Political oversight over domestic operations with an input from Murmur Analytics Draft PP?
Prof F. Vre? (Stell Univ) : Outlining the ?growth in domestic military deployments in South Africa Draft PP??
Respondent: Dr Moses B. Khanyile Dir Cemis, Stellenbosch 肆客足球
Closing: Prof Michelle Nel (Stell Univ)
Video: Forthcoming? 30 June 2024 Here?
Date: Thursday 27 June 2024? Time: 13:30 - 15:00 (GMT+2)
Registrations Here?
Platform: (Pse type in your detai?l when entering) MSTEAMS Here?
Concept Note: Here?
Enquiries: Prof F. Vre? Email
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Webinar
?Expeditionary Logistics and Southern African Operations: What Next for the South African Military?
14 February 2024
(10:00-16:00 GMT+2)
?Lunch break 12:00-13:00
ABSTRACT
This seminar will focus on the topic of both strategic and operational logistics and its influence on future regional African deployments. The speakers will show that the South African military must pay close attention particularly to lessons learnt for logistics emerging from the Russo-Ukrainian war. In the case of South Africa a re-examination of current supply and replenishment systems may also be required, including an evaluation of the role and functionality of commercial logistic contracting solutions. Lastly, a current 'best practice' model of expeditionary logistics will be proposed with the intention of provoking debate in South African military logistic circles.
SPEAKERS
?Ronald Ti (King's College London) : Logistic lessons from ??Ukraine
Evert Jordaan & Abel Esterhuyse (Stellenbosch 肆客足球) : South African operational logistics
Roy Marais (RCM? Strategic Sustainment Consulting) : A bottom-up view of logistics in the SA military
Eeben Barlow (Executive Outcomes) : Learning from the private military domain
Thomas Dur?ell-Young (US Naval Postgraduate School) ?: Why defence planning doesn't '?work'
Speaker Bios Here?
?Abstracts Here?
Programme: Here???
Presentations: Ron Ti - ? A Esterhuyse & E Jordaan - Eeben Barlow - Roy Marais -? Thomas Young?
Registration Link (opens 3 Jan 24): Here??
MS TEAMS link: Here????
SIGLA Brief on expeditionary logistics: Here???
Webinar video: Here?
Enquiries: ?
Prof Abel Esterhuyse: Email
Prof Francois Vre?:? Email?
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