American Family Protection

Douglas Kinney
Crisis Management Advisor

Serves as Crisis Management Advisor for AFP and he is also Project Manager of ITA, Inc.

Specializes in crisis planning and crisis management for Innovative Technology Application, Inc. (ITA), serving as ITA's Program Manager for the Foreign Affairs Agencies of the Federal Government. Mr. Kinney designs and Conducts "Red Cell" counterterrorism and Crisis Management Exercises worldwide, having served as Crisis Management Team Leader at Sana'a, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Casablanca, Rabat, Tunis, Damascus, New Delhi, Calcutta/Kolkata, Madras/Chennai, Bombay/Mumbai, Zagreb, Vienna, Minsk, Geneva, Djibouti, Bamako, Kampala, Lilongwe, Brussels, Rome, Naples, Milan, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Asuncion, La Paz, Nagoya, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Osaka-Kobe, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Vladivostok, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Ponta Delgada, Toronto, Montreal, Almaty/Dushanbe, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Cochabamba, Trinidad/Bení, St. George's, Port au Prince, Canberra, Manila, Port Moresby, Ulaanbaatar, Luxembourg, Windhoek, Maputo, Antananarivo, Canton/Guangzhou, Kuala Lumpur, Chiang Mai, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Doha, Manama, Nairobi, Bujumbura, Kigali, Dar es Salaam, London, Madrid, Hamburg, Leipzig, Moscow, Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Ashgabat, Bratislava, Strasbourg, Marseille, Prague, Dhaka, Bangkok, Kaohsiung, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Bern, Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Sarajevo, Skopje, Bucharest, Budapest, Valletta, Yerevan, Chisinau, Ankara, Nicosia, Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Kabul, Tbilisi, Ljubljana, Sofia, Florence, Baghdad, Belgrade, Podgorica, Pristina, Apia, Suva, Auckland, Wellington, Riyadh, Dhahran, Jeddah, Turin, Bishkek and Seoul. Mr. Kinney also teaches for the defense and intelligence communities, and conducts exercises for specific threats / sites such as aircraft shoot-downs; special events such as the Turin Winter Olympics; and specific teams such as the Task Forces of the Department of State Operations Center – as well as helping with field training for the Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) stationed off major littorals around the world should Americans need help or evacuation.

Mr. Kinney volunteers as Life Safety and Asset Protection (LS&AP) Lead for the American Red Cross for the Washington Metropolitan Area response team -- roughly corresponding to FEMA's National Capital Region; on the American Red Cross nationwide Critical Response Team (CRT) for Mass Casualty events including WMD and aircrash; as a Manager (Safety) in the nationwide Red Cross Disaster Relief system; as a FEMA/Community Emergency Response Team (FEMA/CERT) Member; as a CERT Instructor in Urban Search and Rescue at the DC Fire Academy; on the Rehab Team of DC Fire and EMS; and with Shenandoah Mountain Rescue Group (SMRG), an accredited Rescue Squad specializing in rural and mountain Search and Rescue (SAR) under Law Enforcement auspices in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. During national-level disasters or security events, Mr. Kinney also serves on the Emergency Support Team in the DHS/FEMA National Response Coordination Center (NRCC); in the Washington, DC, Emergency Operations Center; and at other crisis management facilities. Mr. Kinney has Law Enforcement training as a Reserve Officer of the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, DC. He is a currently-rated Disaster Instructor and First Aid/CPR[Adult, Child, Infant]/AED Instructor. Mr. Kinney has current FEMA, Red Cross, CERT, CDC and other certifications and training in a wide variety of Emergency Management fields.

His training includes Emergency Program Management, Incident Command, Chem/Bio Incident Command, Strategic Planning, Emergency Op Center design/staffing/procedures, Disaster Services, Damage Assessment, Disaster Relief Logistics, Industrial Disasters, HazMat Disasters, Radiation Disaster & Radiological Terrorism, Mass Care, Biological Terrorism, Nuclear Emergencies, Emergency Medical Care & Trauma, Mass Casualties, Disaster Health Services, Disaster Mental Health Services, Family Services, Shelter Operations, Community Disaster Exercises, Emergency Response Vehicles, Radiological Emergency Management, Radiological Emergency Response, Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Fire Suppression, Disaster Medical Operations, Special Events Contingency Planning, Control of Mass Disorder, Victim/Responder Psychology/Physiology, Disaster Public Affairs, WMD Terrorism, Mass Transit terrorism, diversity and cross-cultural aspects of Disaster Services, Aircrash Response, Basic Search and Rescue (SAR); SAR Field Equipment; Call-Out Procedures; Search Operations and Patterns; Advanced SAR Operations -- Incident Command System (ICS); Communications; Basic Rescue (and Extraction); Semi-Technical Rescue; Advanced Semi-Technical Rescue (high-angle); Advanced Semi-Technical Rescue Field Exercise; and Incident Staff Training -- Public Information Officer; and Leadership in Disaster (Officer Development Training]. He has training as an Open Water Diver and Water Safety/Survival Instructor, as well as in triage; the Automated External Defibrillator (AED); FEMA Responder-8 skills; Urban Search & Rescue/Leveraging/Cribbing/Extraction; exposure/hypothermia; as well as in counterterrorism planning, surveillance detection, high-performance (Lime Rock) & anti-terrorist (BSR) driving, bomb/landmine/IED Countermeasures, and emergency medical procedures. He has Instructor Training in Terrorist Recognition & Response, urban mass transit terrorism, the CERT disaster skillsets, and. Bloodborne & Airborne Pathogens. He is a volunteer in NIH vaccine experiments against bioterror and has extra inoculations against smallpox and anthrax to be able to respond in a bio-emergency. A graduate of the Complex Humanitarian Emergencies Leadership seminar of the U.S. Institute of Peace, Red Cross Officer Development Training, and of FEMA Integrated Terrorism Emergency Management at Mt. Weather, Mr. Kinney served as a Coordinator of the State Department's Kosovo Task Force and as Chair of the U.S. Government's Interagency Group on Civil Emergency Planning; US Rep to the Senior CEP Committee of NATO; and Head of Delegation to the NATO CEP Plenary at Brussels. He helped establish Civil Emergency Planning as an emergency management system of all countries of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership, from Vancouver to Vladivostok.

Mr. Kinney has extensive Continuity of Government experience at the Federal level in classified programs. Mr. Kinney has also done crisis management of earthquakes, tropical storms, epidemics, insurgency, mass civil disorder, ethnic strife, sheltering of displaced persons, skyjackings, diplomatic hostage-takings, kidnapping of American Citizens, embassy evacuation under fire, UN peacekeeping, peace enforcement, protection zones, and expeditionary theatre warfare. A Professional Member of the World Future Society and the expert survey panel of the Global Futures Forum with extensive experience in emergency scenarios, he has contributed to MIT's CASCON crisis management computer program; Harvard's crisis case studies series; JCS wargames; and the work of the U.S. Institute of Peace; GMU Peacekeeping Seminars; and the Peacekeepers Roundtable of the International Peace Academy in New York. Mr. Kinney's experience in negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution includes political crises, nuclear arms control, multilateral and Security Council agreements, intermediate-range nuclear forces, mutual defense arrangements, personnel recovery, prepositioned forces, ceasefire/armistice/war termination, return of mortal remains, and Prisoner of War exchange, as well as human rights field investigation and exhumation, community development and civil society programs, Famine Early Warning, and the observation/certification of free local and national elections and Trusteeship Plebiscites. He is a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers, and serves on the regional Terrorism Subcommittee of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) and on the regional Board of The Association of Contingency Planners (ACP). Mr. Kinney taught Negotiation at Georgetown as a Una Chapman Cox Fellow, and is the author of National Interest/ National Honor: The Diplomacy of the Falklands Crisis (New York: Praeger, 1990). Mr. Kinney holds the Superior Honor Award of the U.S. Department of State for service in “conditions of personal hardship and danger” and a defense service medal from the Secretary of Defense on recommendation of U.S. Central Command Forward Headquarters/DESERT STORM.

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Curriculum Vitae: As a career Foreign Service Officer, Douglas Kinney served as Director of the Office of UN Policy, Public and Congressional Affairs; as Deputy Chief of Mission in Chad; and as Counselor of Embassy for Political Affairs in Brussels. The Office of Policy, Public & Congressional Affairs is charged with creative policy alternatives in peacekeeping, negotiation of conflict, and coordination on cutting-edge global issues. Mr. Kinney did policy planning, public speaking and direct contact work with constituencies from the American public and Congress through press, academia, think tanks & NGOs, and served on GMU's roundtables of peacekeeping practitioners. In N'Djamena, Mr. Kinney coordinated the work of seven U.S. Government Agencies with an operating budget of $12m and some 280 employees on key American interests including human rights, democracy (first elections) and economic development, close-out of USAID, Self-Help and Community Development projects, and the Exxon pipeline to the sea. The Political Section of the American Embassy at Brussels focused on giving force to American political interests and values in the high-energy “capital” of Europe. His team advised on Belgian politics -- Regional, Communal & national -- and implemented our cooperation with Belgium in multilateral politics (UN, EU, NATO) as well as human rights and law enforcement, working closely with Belgium on the UN peacekeeping operation in Eastern Slavonia (Croatia), and on the Grands Lacs arc of crisis in Congo/Rwanda/Burundi on genocide, refugees and human rights.

Mr. Kinney had two deployments with U.S. forces in the field: as Political Advisor to Operation PROVIDE COMFORT/ NORTHERN WATCH in the Spring of 1994, he advised the Commanding General of the Allied Coalition (US, UK, France and Turkey) providing a protected zone for the Kurds of Northern Iraq on dealing with Iraq, coalition maintenance, stemming intra-Kurdish fighting, contingency planning for Iraqi invasion, and UN and NGO relief and rehabilitation efforts for the three million Kurds of Northern Iraq, operating in the field from Adana, Turkey, through As Sulymaniah, Kurdish-controlled Iraq. As a political officer seconded to the wartime forward headquarters of Central Command for the eight months of Operation DESERT STORM in Saudi Arabia, occupied Iraq, and liberated Kuwait, he advised on coalition formation and maintenance; political aspects of buildup and the campaign; North Red Sea & Gulf naval interdiction and boardings; sanctions enforcement; search & rescue in neutral countries; unconventional & psychological operations; and civil affairs & reconstruction in Kuwait. Mr. Kinney served in the ICRC negotiations with Iraq on POW/MIA/Mortal Remains and the satisfactory placement of our 82,000 Iraqi prisoners of war, and aboard recovery flight Mercy One for the return of the first American POWs.

As Deputy Director for Europe & the MidEast, Office of Defense Relations & Security Assistance, Mr. Kinney directed Foreign Service, Civil Service and military officers charged with planning for defense relations and adjudicating politically-sensitive aspects of US defense relations, including base and access rights and prohibitions of destabilizing arms sales, adjudicating some $10B in weapons transfers. He served on the US-Kuwait Joint Military Commission, the US-Israel Joint Politico-Military Group, and our regular and intense pol-mil consultations with the UK and Canada. A 1990 graduate of The National War College, senior defense school of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he had Management and Strategic Planning training with emphasis on the trans-century global agenda and a one-month exchange with Soviet Forces to Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Moscow, Volgograd (Stalingrad) & Tbilisi. Mr. Kinney earlier advised on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (SS-20 vs. Pershing and Cruise Missiles) in Theatre Military Policy and on the U.S. Delegation to the Geneva Strategic Arms Talks -- negotiations that eliminated the first whole class of nuclear arms.

As a Chapman Cox Fellow and a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Mr. Kinney taught Negotiation at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. He did fieldwork in the United Kingdom, Falkland/Malvinas Islands, and Argentina. In New York, Mr. Kinney served as Advisor (Political & Security Affairs) to Amb. Kirkpatrick; political officer in the Security Council; member of the U.S. Delegation to the 36th and 37th U.N. General Assemblies; and as Deputy U.S. Rep to the Trusteeship Council. He served as Deputy Political Counselor in Caracas, Venezuela and liaison to the Christian Democratic Party and to the CD International on restoring democracy in Chile, Haiti, and Panama. Mr. Kinney chaired the OPEN FORUM, the elected openness and creativity function in State's Policy Planning Staff which included a 100-speaker program on policy alternatives, a dozen volunteer working groups, a quarterly classified magazine of policy dissent, and an open dissent channel to the Secretary on foreign policy. He had previous assignments to Embassy Rome; UN Political Affairs; NATO Affairs; the Kissinger Secretariat (and 18 countries abroad); Mexico City; and the initial Peace Corps water program in Upper Volta. Mr. Kinney read International Law & Relations at Harvard College; Resource Economics at the Kennedy School; and International Business & Management at the Business School.

Mr. Kinney is licensed for a limited term by the Episcopal Bishop of Washington as a Lay Eucharistic Minister to the terminally ill and the distressed. He has served on school boards, Vestries, and Cathedral Councils; on the Kennedy School D.C. Alumni Council; and on Harvard University's Committee on Governance. He is a member of the Army & Navy Club and of the Deer Isle Yacht Club, and serves as a Laird and Order of the Quaich Patron of the Virginia Scottish Games; a Steward of the St. Andrew's Society; and chevalier of the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, the Knights Templar service order.