The Report
of the Iraq Inquiry
•
apply
rigorous quality assurance in selecting the right
people;
•
recognise
non-state forms of local governance, security, justice and
dispute
resolution
that are often more familiar and meaningful to most of the
population
than
state-wide government; and
•
adopt a
two-speed approach to security (short-term stabilisation,
principally
through
local actors, at the same time as creating the conditions for
longer-term
security
sector reform).
966.
Sir Gus
O’Donnell and Sir Peter Ricketts, the National Security
Adviser, sent an
update on
the SU to the Inquiry on 19 January 2011.613
They
reported that:
•
1,289
civilians had been approved for the Civilian Stabilisation Group
(CSG),
including
1,012 Deployable Civilian Experts (DCE) and 277 members of
the
CSSC;
•
the SVN now
included the Local Government Association (LGA), the
National
Health
Service (NHS), private sector companies and a number of
NGOs;
•
the MOD and
the SU continued to discuss the best ways of
identifying
Reservists’
civilian skills and increasing interoperability;
•
now the SU
was responsible for international secondments and
police
deployments,
it was the sole government delivery unit for civil
effect;
•
the SU
could provide planning support to UK operations with or without a
UK
military
presence, and to international partners;
•
the SU
would take the lead in establishing Stabilisation Response
Teams
(SRTs), the
joint civilian-military capability announced in the 2010 SDSR;
and
•
a new
International Police Assistance Group (IPAG) had been formed
in
September
2009 to develop more robust arrangements for delivering
police
capabilities
for civil effect. A pool of 125 police officers was now on standby
for
deployment
for stabilisation efforts.
967.
The Building
Stability Overseas Strategy (BSOS) was published in July 2011
by
DFID, the
FCO and the MOD.614
The three
departments undertook to strengthen their
integrated
approach to tackling instability and conflict by increasing the
integration of
skills and
capacities across government. Those included:
•
strong
intelligence and assessments;
•
diplomacy;
•
development
work;
•
defence
engagement;
•
promotion
of trade and open markets; and
•
the
SU.
613
Statement,
19 January 2011, Annex C.
614
DFID, FCO
and MOD, July 2011, Building
Stability Overseas Strategy.
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