CIAO DATE: 04/05

Providing Security. The Division of Labour. Armed Forces, Gendarmerie, Police

Abstract

This topic is quite uneasy as the security tasks of all three organizations, namely armed forces, police and gendarmerie, are either very different, or very intermingled. The only common point is the primacy of the civilian authority, a rule of good governance and of democracy scrupulously applied and overseen.

We should perhaps go through a semantic exercise in order to define precisely what we do mean by "Security". I would skip it as we have already had this morning a very good approach with Dr Ümit Cizre. Here, we are dealing with both state and human security and also with defense in a very broad sense.

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