The need for coordinated efforts to respond to emerging crises, disasters, and conflicts has become ever-more apparent in the past decade. As events occur more frequently, at a larger scale, and the 24 hour news cycle associated with cable networks and the web-based media enhanced the public’s exposure to disasters, the need for coordination has become more apparent. To that end the United Nations implemented the Cluster Approach. In the decade since its deployment, starting with the Pakistan Earthquake of 2006, little independent academic research has been conducted to assess the approach. Instead, the literature tends to be confined to two camps: internal after action reports from the United Nations and editorials in respected, though non-academic journals, such as Slate Magazine. The following paper suggests exploratory research be done to assess whether the coordination approaches utilized by the Cluster Approach are proving to be beneficial, efficient, and functional.