About this episode

David Higgins discusses the complex interactions between military operations, humanitarian efforts, and political stabilization in modern conflicts.

This episode hosts David Higgins to explore the complex and often misunderstood boundary between military operations, humanitarian action, and political stabilisation in modern conflict environments. Drawing on two decades of experience across the British Army, the United Nations, and geopolitical advisory work, we look at how different institutions operating in the same space can interpret the same conflict in fundamentally different ways, and how those differences shape outcomes on the grou...

People in this episode

Host: Dominic Bowen

Guest: David Higgins

Topics covered

• civil-military coordination
• modern conflict
• humanitarian action
• political stabilization
• geopolitical advisory

Keywords

• civil-military coordination
• modern conflict
• humanitarian action
• political stabilization
• geopolitical advisory

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Organizations: British Army, United Nations

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