Shared Awareness and Deconfliction

Shared Awareness and Deconfliction (SHADE) is an international political platform based in Bahrain intended to develop structured strategy aimed at coordinating international naval activities combating piracy and people smuggling. The intention is to focus on operations on particular areas of the various national concerns and so avoid both duplication of effort and conflicts of political intent.

Started in 2008, by 2015 was operating between some 33 countries and 14 coalitions of forces such as the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), NATO, and EUNAVFOR which operate in the Gulf of Aden and the western Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea.

Early in December 2015 Statewatch published a report of a meeting held at the Italian Navy barracks Riccardo Grazioli Lante della Rovere in Rome on 26 November which claimed: "Since the EUNAVFOR MED operation Sophia launch, last 22nd of June, 43 people have been reported to the Italian Authorities as suspect smugglers and 46 boats have been removed from illegal organizations’ availability while the EU Task Force contributed to save more than 5700 people."

- European Union Naval Force Mediterranean