ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the importance of a multi-actor approach to security, and the roles of legitimacy, authority and obligation, towards understanding the complexity of civil-military interaction. It focuses on Norwegian model, but this model or way of thinking also reflects the thinking behind some of the influential, humanitarian-oriented civil-military guidelines, therefore it serves as a concrete example of a more general challenge in civil-military interaction. Civil-military interaction, and more specifically Civil-Military Corporation (CIMIC), caught author's attention as it was interesting to see multi-actor awareness and practices developing within and by the dominant actor in security study the military. The concept of humanitarian space, crucial to the work of non-governmental humanitarian agency (NGHAs), requires some attention, as it plays a pivotal role in the debate over civil-military interaction. Non-governmental organization (NGO) is a generic terms that refers to organizations which are constituted independently from government, or rather, have no government status.
