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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Franklin E. 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. Strategic Intelligence and …

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

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 …

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Wies Platje

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 …

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: David Ramsbotham

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 …

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Martin Rudner

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 …

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Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Hugh Smith

Hugh Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, University College (UNSW), Australian Defence Force Academy, New South Wales, and was the Founding Director of the Australian Defence Studies Centre at the Academy.  His work below was a pioneering endeavor. Intelligence and UN Peacekeeping