PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future

PEACEKEEPING INTELLIGENCE: Emerging Concepts for the Future

OSS.NET—Seven Standards for Seven Tribes

OSS.NET

Seven Standards for Seven Tribes

Seven Standards[1]

· Global coverage, 24/7, multi-lingual open source information

· Multi-media, multi-lingual processing including geospatial data

· Analytic toolkits (18 functionalities, plug and play standards)

· Analytic tradecraft (best practices across boundaries)

· Personnel and security certifications

· Defensive security and counterintelligence

· Leadership, training, and culture

Seven Tribes

· National intelligence (only nation-states can practice this level)

· Military intelligence (both state and sub-state)

· Law enforcement intelligence (both state and private sector)

· Business intelligence (includes national economic intelligence)

· Academic intelligence (both social science and technical)

· NGO[2]-Media (including niche industry sources & methods)

· Religious-Ethnic/Clan-Citizen (both organized and informal)

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Daily intelligence commentaries and information of common interest to the seven tribes (Begun July 2002, this is a permanent daily offering).

Annual conference each May in Washington, D.C. (Rosslyn by Georgetown).

Publishing books that help unite the tribes and nurture the new craft of intelligence—a craft that makes possible information peacekeeping.

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[1] OSS has joined the American National Standards Organization (ANSI) and encourages all intelligence practitioner organizations to join their respective national standards organizations, with the objective of establishing Technical Advisory Groups for Intelligence within every nation-state.

[2] Non-Governmental Organizations, including the United Nations (UN), but the latter is a special case in that with Member-State approval and provision, it can have access to sensitive classified intelligence bearing on the safety of peacekeeping contingents.