{"id":27185,"date":"2016-03-01T12:56:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T17:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=27185"},"modified":"2016-06-29T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T18:44:15","slug":"cjp-professor-lisa-schirch-finishes-first-of-a-kind-curriculum-to-improve-civilian-security-sector-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/cjp-professor-lisa-schirch-finishes-first-of-a-kind-curriculum-to-improve-civilian-security-sector-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"CJP professor Lisa Schirch finishes first-of-a-kind curriculum to improve civilian-security sector relations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The keynote speech at a conference last December in the The Hague, the Netherlands, came from an unlikely pair of peacebuilders from the Phillipines. Deng Giguiento, a longtime peace trainer in the NGO sector and Gen. Raymundo Ferrer described how they\u2019d slowly built trust across the ideological gulf that usually separates peace workers and soldiers, and then went on to collaborate on various projects that have improved security in a troubled region of their country.<\/p>\n

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Gen. Raymundo Ferrer and Filipino peacebuilder Deng Giguiento (right), who attended EMU’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute, talk about their relationship during a workshop at The Hague.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really, really beautiful story,\u201d said Lisa Schirch<\/a>, a research professor at EMU\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a> (CJP), who was in the audience. \u201cToday the Philippines is really the ideal case study where civil society, the military and the police are working together the most.\u201d<\/p>\n

For years, Schirch has spent an enormous amount of time thinking about the essential role such collaboration between civil society and the security sector plays in peacebuilding. At the conference in The Hague, attended by dozens of military, police and civil society leaders from around the world, she released her new 300-page training manual on the topic, Handbook on Human Security: A Civil-Military-Police Curriculum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The handbook, accompanied by a separate collection of 40 case studies of civil society work with the military and police, a policy brief and two videos \u2013 all available online<\/a> \u2013 is the culmination of three years of work. With support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Schirch worked with partners from more than 100 peacebuilding organizations around the world to develop the first-of-its-kind curriculum, designed to improve human security by facilitating cooperation between civil society, police and the military.<\/p>\n

Cooperation necessary and important<\/h3>\n

Although the just-published manual was three years in the making, Schirch traces the true beginnings of the project to the morning of the September 11 attacks, when she and her colleague Jayne Docherty<\/a> \u2013 now the program director of CJP \u2013 began writing a document envisioning a \u201cA Long Term Strategy for American Security<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schirch said the curriculum is already being used in the Philippines and Tajikistan, and that she hopes for a wider audience.<\/p>\n

\"Conference<\/a>
Conference organizers (left to right) Shafqat Mehmood, retired Brigadier General in Pakistan Army; founder and chair of Paiman Trust David Cortright, Director of Policy Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame; Lieutenant Colonel Andreas Eckel, deputy director, and Major Wouter Koeveringe, military police advisor, both of the Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence; Melanie Cohen Greenberg, CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding; Lisa Schirch, research professor at EMU and director of human security, Alliance for Peacebuilding; and Jenny Aulin, programme director, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict. (Courtesy photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe tried to make it relevant to very different security challenges, from drug trafficking to insurgent groups to a repressive government and civil society response,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Whatever the context, the fundamental idea behind the handbook is, as Schirch wrote in the introduction: \u201cHuman security depends on fruitful civil-military-police understanding and coordination.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNew generations of security sector leaders recognize that civil society is an important stakeholder for sustainable security,\u201d she continued. \u201cAt the same time, many in civil society recognize the need to engage with the security sector as key stakeholders necessary for sustainable peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the conference in The Hague, Schirch made a few final edits to the curriculum and has been preparing for a final visit to the U.S. Army War College, where she has worked with military officers for 10 years to learn about their perspectives on security and advance their understanding of civil society peacebuilding.<\/p>\n

For Schirch, the publication of the curriculum also marked \u2013 temporarily, at least \u2013 an end to a hectic schedule of regular commuting to Washington D.C. and frequent international travel as she taught and studied civil-security sector relations.<\/p>\n

New projects related to religion, violent extremism<\/h3>\n

In early 2016, she will begin co-chairing a new task force convened by the U.S. State Department Office on Religion and Global Affairs. The group has been asked to write a handbook for training Foreign Service officers on engagement with religious actors.<\/p>\n

Schirch will also work part-time for the Japan-based Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research<\/a>. Among her responsibilities there will be helping plan a seminar on peacebuilding response to violent extremism that the organization will host next fall at EMU. Schirch will also teach one course each year at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute.<\/p>\n

Schirch also shared that she plans to spend time with her family and in her garden, as well as on an art project using traditional Mennonite art forms like fraktur<\/em> and etchings from the Martyrs Mirror<\/em> to explore the positive and negative implications of Mennonite peace theology.<\/p>\n

On a related note, she is also writing a book, A Tribe Called Mennonite, <\/em>about her own career and the philosophy and psychology of Mennonite peacebuilding. She\u2019ll speak about this work in a keynote address at a conference in June 2016 at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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