For donors and implementers of regional organisations it is often difficult to reach out to recipient countries. They struggle to identify the right individual or organisation to speak to or invite as a representative to a coordination meeting. The result can be that a government is weakly represented at international events, or that information about opportunities arising are not adequately transmitted within the government.
Maritime spill over! Shipping at risk. The global consequences of the conflict in Yemen.
What started as a small scale rebellion has now become a full-fledged civil war fuelled by external engagements: Yemen’s political futures is more and more uncertain. The country is on the way to a protracted conflict as we have come to know it from the situations in Somalia, Libya and elsewhere. Yemen’s conflict is mainly … Read more
Best Practices: Maritime Security Strategies
For many countries, maritime security strategies and plans are a useful coordination device. Such strategies provide overall direction and guidelines; they map agencies and accountability relations and describe maritime security governance structures and the roles and responsibilities of each agency. Often, as in the case of the EU Maritime Security Strategy or the Seychelles Maritime Plan (see box), they are accompanied by detailed plans of action and investment strategies.
Best Practices: The ‘tool-box’ of capacity building
Capacity building can only be defined very broadly; the measures it should include are debated, if not contested. Different methods of delivery belong in the tool-box and it is important to note their different strengths and weaknesses. The SAFE SEAS Best Practice Toolkit explores the strengths of different methods of delivery.
Best Practices: Maritime Domain Awareness
Effective knowledge production about activities at sea, also known as Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), is one of the backbones of successful maritime security governance on both national and regional levels. Establishing a centre that integrates data on maritime activity and analyses it is a priority. Such centres share information between agencies on both national and regional levels. In many countries, a national centre also integrates search and rescue, as well as the monitoring of fisheries.
Lecture at Military Academy of South Africa
On January 31st, Professor Christian Bueger will be giving a lecture to the staff and students of the Military Academy of South Africa. Drawing on the core insights from SAFESEAS, in particular, the current draft of the best practice toolkit and the recent article in International Affairs, Prof Bueger will contextualize maritime security and speak about … Read more
Symposium on Maritime Security Capacity Building
Safeseas high-Level Symposium on Capacity Building for Maritime Security To protect the world oceans, ensure maritime security and develop the blue economy more and better capacities are needed. How can these capacities be built? How to organise maritime security? With what policies? When and how is external assistance the most effective? These were some of … Read more
SafeSeas to host High Level Symposium on Maritime Security Capacity Building
To discuss how maritime security governance can be made more efficient and capacity building can be better coordinated and its delivery improved, SAFESEAS is organizing a high-level symposium in Nairobi, on the 2nd of March 2018. The symposium, the first of its kind, takes stock of the past experience in maritime security capacity building and asks how it can be more efficiently delivered and coordinated. The high level event is a meeting of representatives from countries benefitting from capacity building, representatives of actors engaged in capacity building and a range of practitioners active in maritime security projects.
Mastering maritime security: SafeSeas forthcoming best practice tool kit
Maritime security is a global task. It requires effective governance on a national and regional level, but also external capacity building to assist countries in developing the required human, institutional and material capacities needed to manage maritime spaces and enforce regulation within those spaces. Mastering this complex arena requires reflexive capacity building. SafeSeas forthcoming Best … Read more
Conference on maritime security and small navies in London
SAFE SEAS Research Associate Dr. Robert McCabe is co-organising the forthcoming ‘Europe, Maritime Security and Small Navies’ Conference at Kings College London on 19th and 20th January 2018. This conference is organised in conjunction with Cardiff University, the Centre for Military History and Strategic Studies at Maynooth University, and the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy … Read more