Pilot 1:Civil-Military Friction Survey

This questionnaire aims to test a concept - Civil-Military Friction. This is being evaluated as a research tool for use alongside a classification of types of military activities, to develop a consistent nomenclature for Civil-Military Medical relationships. It is hoped this will inform discussions and debate about the impacts of different military activities and allow more rigorous research. It will also make up part of Simon Horne's PhD.

The concept is that friction is the extent to which a military activity is considered detrimental, or unacceptable, to civilian actors such as Humanitarian Non-Governmental organisations (NGO) or development actors who might normally be active in the same geographical area.  It may arise for many reasons ("Blurring the lines" etc) but this part of the study is not looking at why Civil-Military relationships may be harmful or difficult. Friction is intended as an estimate of the likely effect on the civilian actors of one given activity, relative to another.  Please do not spend too much time trying to second-guess the questions, there are no tricks.  Just give your initial feeling about how much friction the situation might generate with civilians in the area.

The questionnaire takes the form of some basic anonymous questions about yourself and your background (so that we can assess how generalizable the answers are across different groups of respondents), and then presents some vignettes describing different situations where civilians and militaries might be working in similar locations.

This is a voluntary, anonymous study. Full details such as ethics information can be found here. By continuing you are giving your consent for the data to be used as part of a PhD at King's College London. You can withdraw at any time, but as any data you give is not identifiable it cannot be isolated from the rest and deleted, and so will still be analysed in the study.

It usually takes 15-20 minutes.

Are you happy to continue?