Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Jan-Inge Svensson

Alpha Q-U, Peace Intelligence
Jan-Inge Svensson
Jan-Inge Svensson

Jan-Inge Svensson is a colonel (now retired) in the Royal Swedish Army. In 2002 he was the  Commanding officer of the Swedish Armed Forces Intelligence and Security Centre. In 1995 he was Head of the G-2 section (intelligence) of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Zagreb.  In 1996 he developed and implemented a Swedish National Intelligence Cell in Sarajevo.  Since retirement he has been the lead Course Director and strategic planner for Multinational Information Sharing and Sense-Making at the Folke Bernadette Academy, and is among those in the senior ranks of the Nordic countries who have been asked to create the United Nations Peacekeeping Intelligence curriculum.  He is also the Editor of the follow-on book, INTELLIGENCE FOR PEACE: Multinational, Multifunctional Information-Sharing and Sense-Making [free online].

Peacekeeping and Intelligence Experiences from United Nations Protection Force 1995

 

The Book
The Book

UN-NGO Archives on Public Intelligence (1992-2006)

Non-Governmental
Archives 1992-2006
Archives 1992-2006

2006

US

NGO None Draft Legislation to Establish Department of Peace

2006

SE

NGO Salin Peacekeeping Intelligence Training

2006

US

NGO Steele Peacekeeping Intelligence & Information Peacekeeping 1.3

2006

SE

NGO Svensson Swedish Peacekeeping Intelligence Curriculum

2006

SE

NGO Svensson Swedish Peacekeeping Intelligence Course Description

2006

US

NGO Tillman Department of Peace (Kucinich Supports)

2006

US

NGO Tillman Peace Trip

2004

US

NGO Schell Review of Unconquerable World by Richard Falk

2004

US

NGO Steele PKI III: Peacekeeping Intelligence & Information Peacekeeping

2004

US

NGO Steele Sweden: Peacekeeping Intelligence & Information Peacekeeping

2003

AF

NGO Brahimi Brahimi Report Extracts Relevant to UN/NGO Intelligence Function

2003

NL

NGO Cammaert Comments on Intelligence and Peacekeeping

2003

US

NGO Steele Peacekeeping Intelligence Leadership Guidance 1.0

2003

US

NGO Steele Information Peacekeeping & The Future of Intelligence

2003

US

NGO Steele et al Peacekeeping Intelligence Leadership Digest 1.0

2002

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NGO Steele Netherlands: Information Peacekeeping & The Future of Intelligence

2002

US

NGO Steele Netherlands Keynote on Information Peacekeeping

2000

CA

NGO Charters OSINT for Peace Operations: Perspectives from UN Operations

2000

UN

NGO Chitumbo et al Nuclear Transparency through Open Source Intelligence (Slides)

2000

UN

NGO Chitumbo et al Nuclear Transparency through Open Source Intelligence (Text)

1999

US

NGO Dearth Peacekeeping in the Information Age

1999

Switz

NGO Fuchs Summary of 1994 Remarks on Red Cross OSINT

1999

UN

NGO GDIN Global Disaster Information Network Participants

1999

US

NGO GDIN Global Disaster Information Network Background Paper

1999

US

NGO GDIN Proposal to Increase Information Sharing Through ReliefWeb

1999

US

NGO Rhoader Peace Wing

1999

AU

NGO Smith Intelligence and UN Peacekeeping

1998

US

NGO GDIN Background on Meeting of Disaster Relief Experts

1998

US

NGO GDIN Global Disaster Information Network Conference Concept Paper

1996

US

NGO Air Force Peacespace Dominance

1994

Switz

NGO Fuchs Complete Remarks of the Director General of the Red Cross

1994

Switz

NGO Fuchs Handling Information in Humanitarian Operations Within Armed Conflicts

1993

US

NGO Steele Information Peacekeeping: A Note

1993

US

NGO Whitney-Smith Toward an Epistemology of Peace

2004 4 Dec Stockholm Peacekeeping Intelligence Trip Report

Communities of Practice, Memoranda, Peace Intelligence
Full Source Online
Full Source Online

Recently (2007) the United Nations asked the Nordic countries, which customarily operate in a multinational multifunctional fashion (both intelligence and operations) to create a multinational multifunctional information sharing and sense-making program of instruction for the UN.  Col Jan-Inge Svensson is the lead in Sweden, and his first two offerings of the course combined with the contributions to this conference will comprise the new book, the second in the series, INTELLIGENCE FOR PEACE: Multinational Multifunctional Information-Sharing and Sense-Making.

2004: Information Peacekeeping A Nobel Objective

About the Idea, Briefings & Lectures

Click here for briefing with notes:  Information Peacekeeping 1.1-1

Following the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) first conference on Peacekeeping Intelligence, out of which came the book, PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future, there was a conference in Canada that produced a book that is both overpriced and overly academic.  The third conference, in Sweden in December 2004, came back on track but did not go the entire distance.  With the more recent development by Col Jan-Inge Svensson of the Multinational Multifunctional Information Course at the Folke Bernadette Academy, the way was cleared for the second book in this series, INTELLIGENCE FOR PEACE: Multinational Multifunctional Information-Sharing and Sense-Making, to be edited by Col Svensson [suspended but free online].

The above briefing joins the 1995 articulation of the vision and the strategy in the French publication, 1995 Re-Inventing Intelligence The Vision and the Strategy, as a portal to the future in which unclassified decision-support–public intelligence–creates a prosperous world at peace.  The substance of the article was subsequently published as 2006 IJIC 19/3 Peacekeeping Intelligence & Information Peacekeeping.

A trip report on the conference, 11 pages, is available here online.

See Also:

21st Century Intelligence Core References 2007-2013

2008 Mark Tovey (ed.),  Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (Earth Intelligence Network)

2010 Robert Steele, INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity & Sustainability (Earth Intelligence Network)

2012 Robert Steele, THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth, & Trust (North Atlantic Books)