Previous Exercises

“I wanted to thank you for the extraordinary hospitality of the entire PPC staff during the OSPREY exercise. It was a sincere pleasure to be associated with a first class, professional operation. My only regret is that I did not have my first PPC experience earlier.”

Louis Gentile, Participant
Exercise Cooperative Osprey, March 2001

Exploring Sword 01

Exercise Exploring Sword trained the Headquarters of 1 Ge/NL Corps http://www.1gnc.org/ as a NATO Land Component Command Headquarters, according to unit Standing Operations Procedures, in a Peace Support Scenario. Exploring Sword was conducted at the Cornwallis campus of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, from 5 to 16 November 2001. Over 200 participants and control staff participated.

Exercise participants operated in a simulated peace operations environment, using the PPC's Orion system and a communications suite consisting of networked computers, telephone, facsimile and video teleconferencing. Civilian and military role-players represented higher and lower command levels, and the various host nation and international civilian and police agencies with whom the Headquarters communicated. Exercise play was driven by a series of scripted events based on the training objectives of the exercise, which in turn generated a great deal of spontaneous interactive play between the Headquarters and the various control organizations.

This recent example of the PPC's exercise activities demonstrates the applicability of the Orion system to a longer, on-site, dynamic training activity for a military training audience.

Project Ploughshares Seminar

The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre recently worked with Project Ploughshares http://www.ploughshares.ca, a Canadian NGO. The PPC developed an exercise that allowed participants to model the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, Responsibility to Protect http://www.iciss-ciise.gc.ca/report-e.asp. Project Ploughshares wanted to know what the implications of adopting the ICISS recommendations would be for Canadian Defence policy. The seminar took place in September 2002, and brought together 27 persons from 23 civil society organizations, academic institutions and departments of the Government of Canada, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the Department of National Defence (DND), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT).

Participants told us:

“… very useful for getting into the complexities of the requirements for a military intervention”

” [The Orion scenario] was very helpful to tease out most of the relevant issues, concerns, and unanswered questions"

“Overall the scenario was very useful to highlight all the problems associated with the implementation of 'The Responsibility to Protect’”

"The scenario generated much useful discussion, though we did not necessarily resolve the issues."

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