Partnership
NRDC-ITA plays a fuller role than ever before in the development of cooperative activities and approaches within NATO and amongst partners. NATO partnership make a clear and valued contribution to Allied and more broadly to international security and to defend the values of individual liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law, on which the Alliance is based. Moreover, in the mindset of the Comprehensive Approach, NRDC-ITA concentrates its efforts by creating links with and involving the civil dimension, in order to assure the integration of the civil and military components in the "full spectrum approach" that is needed to face a modern situation of crisis.