Liaison is CFE-DM’s biannual journal of disaster management and humanitarian relief collaborations. Articles are original work from throughout the DMHA community focusing on advances, partnerships, technology and applied research, and training and education. The journal aims to promote the ability of DMHA partners to learn from one another through lessons learned to build a stronger DMHA community through shared learning.

Latest Issue

Liaison Magazine Volume 12, Issue 1, 2020

COVID-19 Response

In this issue:

Australia's Historic Bushfire, COVID-19
A field epidemiologist shares her first-hand experience as an Emergency Services Volunteer for the Australian Red Cross during the worst bushfire in Australia's history along with responding in a pandemic environment.

Interoperability in a COVID-19 era
U.S. Army's 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command and Republic of Korea Army 2nd Operational Command's 19th CBRNE Battalion work together to combat COVID-19.

Vanuatu's local leadership steps up
The humanitarian and disaster response sector in Vanuatu was required to respond to TC Harold in unique circumstances. A global pandemic, at a scale not experienced since 1918.

Archives

Year Issue Title
1999 I - 1 Inaugural Issue
1999 I - 2 Filter-free Solutions
1999 I - 3 Security: Can we feel safe in the post-cold war world?
2000 I - 4 A B C?
2000 II - 1 Center Update
2001 II - 2 Preparing for Peace
2002 II- 3 International Humanitarian Law: The Road Ahead
2002 II - 4 Transitions
2002 III - 1 Deference to Diversity
2002 III - 2 Civilian Police Issues in Peacekeeping
2006 III - 3 Civil Military Progress: Beyond the 2004 Tsunami
2007 IV - 1 Building Capacity Across the Civil-Military Spectrum
2012 V-1 Civil-Military Lessons Learned in Response to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
2014 VI Advances in Disaster Management that are Shaping the Future
2015 VII- 1 Partnerships for a Stronger Community
2015 VII - 2 Emerging Challenges to Civil-Military Coordination in Disaster Response
2016 VIII Lessons from Nepal and other Recent Disasters
2017 IX- 1 Shaping Phase Zero: How the Military, Humanitarians and Private Sector Prepare for Disasters
2017 IX - 2 Regional Coordination in Disaster Management
2018 X-1 Stronger Together: HADR Export Working Groups
2018 X-2 Staying Ahead Utilizing Information and Strategies to Equip and Prepare for Disaster Response
2019 XI-1 CFE-DM 25th Anniversary
2019 XI-2 Resilient Cceania
2020 XII-1 COVID-19 Response

Liaison Magazine Article Submissions

The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance invites article submissions for upcoming Liaison journals with regard to civil-military disaster management and humanitarian relief collaborations.

CFE-DM invites original submissions from contributors of all backgrounds within the dmha community that have supported collaborations in assessments, lessons learned, technology, science and applied research, and training and education within the regional cooperation theme.

Liaison is a journal of civil-military disaster management and humanitarian relief collaborations and aims to engage and inform readers on the most current research, collaborations and lessons learned available.

We prefer original submissions, but if your article or paper is being considered for publication elsewhere, please note that with the submission.

Please direct submissions or questions to the editor at cfe.dmha.fct@pacom.mil or public affairs at theanne.herrman@pacom.mil.

Article Submission Details

format

All submissions should be emailed to the editor as an unformatted Microsoft word file. Endnotes are the preferred method of citation, if applicable, and please attach any images within the document as separate files as well.

Provide original research or reporting

Liaison is looking for original work, but previously published articles or papers will be considered if they are relevant to the issue topic.

Clarity

Please avoid technical acronyms and language. the majority of Liaison readers are from Asia-Pacific nations and articles should be addressed to an international audience.

Copyrights or Licenses

All work remains the property of the author or photographer. Submission of an article or photograph implies authorization of publication by liaison magazine.

Supporting Imagery

Original imagery supporting any and all articles is also welcome. Please ensure the images are high-resolution and can be credited to the photographer without license infringement. Images should be attached to the submission separately, not embedded within the Microsoft word document.

Biography and Photo

When submitting an article, please include a short biography and high-resolution photo of yourself for the contributors' section.