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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Wies Platje

Alpha M-P, Peace Intelligence

Wies Platje is a retired lieutenant commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy. For over thirty years he held various functions within the Netherlands Navy Intelligence Service. He is a member of the NISA Board and one the organisers of the NISA/IDL International conference on Peacekeeping and Intelligence in November 2002 in The Hague, and subsequently one of the Editors of the first book devoted to this topic.   He is the author of a book about the Netherlands Navy Intelligence Service, published in 1997 and one of the contributors to Secrets of Signals Intelligence during the Cold War and Beyond (London: Frank Cass Publishers 2001).

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: David Ramsbotham

Alpha Q-U, Peace Intelligence

Sir David Ramsbotham is General (Ret.), British Army, and has served as a consultant to the UN on peacekeeping issues in Cambodia, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Somalia, and Yugoslavia.  Apart from his Army experience, rising to Adjutant General (number two on the Army Board, responsible for personnel and training) he has spent three years in the private sector dealing with UN and World Bank post-conflict resolution and de-mining challenges, and was HM Chief Inspector of Prisons from 1995-2000.  Today he is a Fellow at Corpus Christi College within Cambridge University and continues to take an interest in peacekeeping intelligence matters.

Analysis and Assessment for Peacekeeping Operations

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Bruce Berkowitz: Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution The DI and “IT”

Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

Failing to Keep Up With the Information Revolution: The (CIA) DI and “IT”

Bruce Berkowitz

Studies in Intelligence, 2007

During 2001-2002, I was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Sherman Kent Center for Intelligence Analysis, the “think tank” attached to the CIA’s training center for analysts.  The CIA has long used such scholars as expert analysts, but the Kent Cen­ter wanted to try something new:  using an outside scholar to study the process of analysis itself.  In particular, I was charged with look­ing at how the Directorate of Intelligence (DI) uses information technology (IT), and how it might use this technology more effectively.

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Martin Rudner

Alpha Q-U, Peace Intelligence

Martin Rudner is a Professor at The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, and founding Director of the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies at Carleton. Born in Montreal,
Quebec, he was educated at McGill University, the University of Oxford, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received his doctorate.  Professor Rudner taught at the Hebrew University, and was at the Australian
National University in Canberra before coming to Carleton. He is author of over sixty books and scholarly articles dealing with international affairs, including articles in Intelligence and National Security and International
Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Professor Rudner is a commentator and analyst on international security affairs for Canadian and international electronic and print media. He is Past President of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS).

Canada, the UN, NATO, and Peacekeeping Intelligence

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Reference: The Autocatalysis of Social Systems and the Emergence of Trust

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence

Core Quote:  “Under the condition of double contingency, every self-commitment, however accidentally arisen or however calculated, will acquire information and connective value for the action of others.  Precisely because such a system is formed in a closed and self-referential way — namely A is determined by B and B by A — every accident, every impulse, every error is productivec [of the social system]….Without ‘noise,' no system.”  Citing Niklas Luhmann, Social Systems, Writing Science (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995), p. 116.

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Shlomo Sphiro

Alpha Q-U, Peace Intelligence

Shlomo Sphiro is a lecturer at the Department of Political Studies and a Fellow of the BESA Centre for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He specialises in intelligence, security, communications and media. Previously he has conducted research and taught at universities in Britain and Germany, and led a NATO project on improving intelligence co-operation with Mediterranean countries.

Intelligence, Peacekeeping, and Peacemaking in the Middle East

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