NATO is increasingly placing emphasis on resilience, civil preparedness and civil-military cooperation. It is considered an increasingly important part of the alliance's collective defence and deterrence.
At the 2023 Summit, NATO adopted common allied goals for resilience. The goals are largely based on NATO's basic expectations for resilience from 2016 and 2021 (Seven Baseline Requirements).
- Ensure continuity of national management systems
- Ensure a robust power supply
- Ensuring the ability to handle uncontrolled movement of people
- Ensure robust food and water supply
- Ensuring the capabilities to handle mass casualties
- Ensuring robust civilian communication systems
- Secure resilient transport systems
The expectations to ensure continuity in national governance systems (expectation 1) and to ensure the ability to handle uncontrolled movements of people (expectation 3) fall particularly within the area of responsibility of the justice sector. The DSB supports the work of operationalizing these expectations from NATO.
In order to build a resilient population, and meet NATO's expectations, DSB has a particular focus on civil protection measures, self-preparedness and good civil warning systems.
NATO's increased emphasis on civil-military cooperation has meant that the DSB is to a greater extent involved in work on, for example, NATO's military planning work, exercise planning and the preparation of NATO's situation and status reports.