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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Franklin E. van Kappen

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Senator General van Kappen
Senator General van Kappen

Senator General Franklin E. van Kappen was a transitional and tranformational figure as Military Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, setting the stage for General Patrick Cammaert and the campaign to implement the Brahimi Report recommendations and establish intelligence (decision-support) as an acccepted term of art in UN circles.

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Senator van Kappen was born in 1941 in Semarang, the former Dutch East Indies  (Indonesia). He is married and has two sons.

In 1964 he graduated from the Naval Academy in Den Helder and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps.

In the course of his career he completed Special Forces (Commando) training with the Green Berets in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and was trained as a Mountain and Arctic Warfare Survival Instructor in Norway. He was also trained as a Naval communications and warfare officer and is a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I.(USA).  During his career he served in numerous operational and staff billets in the Netherlands and abroad.

His two last postings are listed below.

In July 1992 he was promoted to Brigadier-General and assumed command of the Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean and of a joint US/Netherlands Task Group working Counter Drug operation in the Caribbean.  He is also one of the founders of the Coast Guard for the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.

In 1995 he was promoted to Major-General and served simultaneously as the top Military Adviser to the Secretary General of the U.N. and as the Director of the Military Division in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at U.N. headquarters in New York.  He provided daily input into the management of all active UN peacekeeping operations.  He also directed the planning process to field new operations as mandated by the Security Council.

In August 1998, Major-General van Kappen returned to the Netherlands and retired from the Marine Corps.  From 2004 until 2008 he worked as a Senior Mentor for NATO and the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) programme sponsored by US Pacific Command to enhance regional cooperation and multinational force readiness for Crisis Response in the Asia Pacific Region.

From 2007 until to date he works as Senior Concept Developer for NATO/ACT. He is a Senior Policy Advisor for the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific (Defence) Research (TNO) and the The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS). He is the chairman of the supervisory board of the Institute for Security, Experimentation and Transformation Institute (ISETI). In 2007 he was elected to take a seat in the Senate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. He lectures internationally as an expert on security issues.

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Pauline Neville-Jones

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Dame Pauline Neville-Jones is Chairman of QinetiQ Group plc, formerly the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) which is in the process of privatisation by the British Government. She is also International Governor of the BBC with special responsibility for BBC World Service (radio) and BBC World (TV). She was previously a Managing Director in NatWest Markets, the then investment-banking arm of the NatWest banking group, and Vice Chairman of Hawkpoint Partners, a corporate Advisory house in the City of London. Prior to that, she was a career member of the British diplomatic service serving, among other places, in Singapore, Washington DC, the European Commission in Brussels and Bonn. She was a foreign affairs adviser to Prime Minister John Major, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee in Whitehall and leader of the British delegation to the Dayton peace conference on Bosnia. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1996 and is an honorary Doctor of London and the Open Universities. She is a Council member of the Royal United Services Institute, a member of the Executive Committee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and of the Advisory Council of the Centre for European Reform in London.

Foreword

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Wies Platje

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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).

Preface

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: David Ramsbotham

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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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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Martin Rudner

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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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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Shlomo Sphiro

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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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