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Reference: Melanie Ramjoue on UN Intelligence

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UN peacekeeping soldier in front of a tank Improving United Nations Intelligence

Lessons from the Field

UN member states have historically been hesitant to provide the UN with an intelligence-collection mandate at either strategic (headquarters) or operational (field) levels. However, the increased size, length and complexity of peacekeeping operations, compounded by severe security threats to UN personnel, make a stronger UN intelligence capability in the field increasingly necessary.

Author:Melanie Ramjoué   .  Series: GCSP Policy Papers   .  Issue:19

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Penguin: Trans-Pacific Partnership – Evil Incarnate?

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Government
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Who, Me?

In three parts, this is the first part.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: This is What Corporate Governance Looks Like

By: Andrew Gavin Marshall

The following is the first installment of a three-part exclusive for Occupy.com on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Originally published at Occupy.com

In 2008, the United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab announced the U.S. entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks as “a pathway to broader Asia-Pacific regional economic integration.” Originating in 2005 as a “Strategic Economic Partnership” between a few select Pacific countries, the TPP has, as of October 2012, expanded to include 11 nations in total: the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Brunei, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia, with the possibility of several more joining in the future.

What makes the TPP unique is not simply the fact that it may be the largest “free trade agreement” ever negotiated, nor even the fact that only two of its roughly 26 articles actually deal with “trade,” but that it is also the most secretive trade negotiations in history, with no public oversight, input, or consultations.

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Marcus Aurelius: Army at a Cross-Roads, Toxic Leadership Not Helping

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Marcus Aurelius

Facing Uncertainty, Budget Cuts, Army Is At A Crossroads

Some changes have been resisted

By Greg Jaffe
Washington Post, November 23, 2012, Pg. 3

For much of this year, Sgt. Maj. Raymond F. Chandler III, the Army's top enlisted soldier, has traveled to bases around the world with a simple message: “We've allowed ourselves to get out of control.”

(COMMENT:  For the past couple of years we have been hearing that despite the exceptional levels of responsibility, operational experience and success, our Soldiers and company/junior field grade officers have acquired in ten plus years of combat experience, the Army's problems are rooted in a lack of garrison soldiering experience.  As the theory apparently goes, troops and leaders have been so busy deploying and training to deploy that they haven't had time to spit shine boots, wax floors, paint rocks, bash the square, etc., and, therefore they are not the Soldiers they should be.  )

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Practical Reflections on United Nations Intelligence + UN RECAP

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Updated 21 Dec 2012 1800

Robert David STEELE Vivas
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DOCUMENT:  2012 Reflections on UN Intelligence 2.3 21 Dec 2012

I had occasion to look at the Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization, and thought this would be a good time to integrate some of what I have learned from working directly with the United Nations (UN), and what I believe could be helpful to the UN as it contemplates “next steps” into the 21st Century.  My thoughts are deeply rooted in my perception of how badly governments have failed at governance, and how dysfunctional the Industrial Era approach to bureaucracy and information channeling has become.  As the world prepares to  migrate to hybrid forms of public governance, the UN's Industrial Era forms of organization and delivery are an impediment to its future viability.  That is a challenge I would like to address, treating the UN as the logical hub for my emergent theory and practice of Public Governance (a mosaic) replacing Public Administration (a stovepipe) in the 21st Century.

Below the line is the document I have drafted in full text, followed by a number of links that are not in the document.

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Reference: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

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Ban Ki-moon

“It is my conviction that the global problems we face today are simply too complex to be solved by Governments alone. They require collective and coordinated action by Government, by the private sector, by civil society, by academia, and by international organizations and multilateral development banks. Over the next year, I will develop a comprehensive proposal which seeks to harness the power of partnership.”

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Priority areas for support should be targeted, better matching these areas with goals and targets, and specific means and tools to reach them should be identified.

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