avoiding intervention: prospects for sub-crisis conflict prevention
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Avoiding intervention: prospects for sub-crisis conflict prevention ANU State of the Pacific conference 19 June 2014 Karl Claxton. Regional security after RAMSI. A growing body of reflections on what worked well and not-so-well during major stabilisation missions - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Avoiding intervention: prospects forsub-crisis conflict prevention
ANU State of the Pacific conference19 June 2014
Karl Claxton
Regional security after RAMSI
A growing body of reflections on what worked well and not-so-well during major stabilisation missions
• Useful as interventions are demanding and can arise without much warning
• But interventions are risky, protracted and expensive for contributors
• And can spur dependency or dysfunction in recipient countries
• Less attention to efforts to address challenges before they turn into acute crises
Australia’s stake in a peaceful and prosperous neighbourhood remains
Elaborate schemes: the wrong answers to the right question?
Aligning our diplomacy, aid, and trade—national security remade
• The start of the quiet rehabilitation of the concept of national security
• The ‘three Ds’ of conflict prevention
• But needs more than just standard diplomacy, development, and defence- Objectives- Relationships- Already beyond a ‘more interventionist approach’ to ‘partnership frameworks’- But two paradigm shifts: a new approach to Australian aid and new Pacific diplomacy- Engaging political settlements/accommodation, hybridity, co-production, etc
Discussion