This PKSOI Lesson Report, January 2019 features lessons in the field of Peacekeeping and Stability Operations related to the subjects of Security Sector Reform (SSR) and Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR).
This publication provides a selection of lessons on Transitional Public Security (TPS) from several past operations: OEF, OIF, Joint Endeavor, Uphold Democracy, and Just Cause/Promote Liberty. TPS is a military-led effort to restore civil security, protect the civilian population, and maintain public order until the Joint Force is able to transfer that responsibility to a competent authority.
1. Strategic Stability Seminar Key Findings 2. Public Order Management 3. State Building versus Nation Building 4. Why Institutionalize Homeland Civil-Military Cooperation 5. Western Sahara Conflict, MINURSO Options 6. Syrian Refugee Impact on European Heroin Crisis 7. The Challenges of UN Peacekeeping Operations 8. UN Peacekeeping: The Chicken or the Tiger? 9. Book Review: The Women in Blue Helmets 10. Book Review: Women and the War on Boko Haram
Please click on link below to view or download.
This lessons learned compendium contains just a sample – thus the title ‘Sampler’ – of the observations, insights, and lessons related to Foreign Humanitarian Assistance available in the SOLLIMS data repository. These lessons are worth sharing with military commanders and their staffs, as well as with civilian practitioners having a peacekeeping or stability operations related mission or function, such as those currently deployed on stability operations, those planning to deploy, the institutional Army, the Joint community, policy-makers, and other international civilian and military leaders at the national and theater level.
What’s Inside! Highlights and working group summaries and findings from the 12th annual Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Training and Education Workshop (PSOTEW) at the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.
Please click on the link below to view or download
This Sampler provides a selection of lessons covering certain complexities & challenges of peacekeeping operations, including: protecting peacekeepers, reducing violence, optimizing robustness, conducting strategic communications, advancing inclusive mediation, managing transitions, and improving environmental impacts. Along with the lessons, this document also provides annexes with additional insights and resources on peacekeeping.
This issue of the Peace & Stability Journal features a report from the AUSA/PKSOI Annual Panel Discussion Event held at the AUSA Head Quarters building in Arlington Virginia. The theme of the event was AFRICOM: 10 Years in the Making as a Model for Stability.
Please click on the link below to view or download.
Peacebuilding efforts cannot succeed without the ownership of local stakeholders, but local perspectives are at times obscured at international/national levels. As such, this Sampler emphasizes the importance of consulting local communities to build sustainable peace. Lessons focus on practical methods to work inclusively with local communities and institutions around the world, demonstrating a variety of effective tools and techniques to prevent and transform violent conflict.
In complex conflict systems, it can be challenging to measure the progress of initiatives intended to gain peace and stability. Lessons in this Sampler focus on the importance of Monitoring & Evaluation for Peace and Stability, examining best practices and providing diverse examples of M&E from a variety of military and civilian initiatives in conflict environments across the globe.
This journal is dedicated to the outcomes from our annual Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Training and Education Workshop or PSOTEW, held from 5 thru 7 April 2017. PKSOI’s 11th annual PSOTEW brought over 160 members of the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Community of Practice in a roundtable format. Many roundtable concepts translated into PSOTEW workgroup initiatives and potential training and education solutions to mitigate numerous challenges facing the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations community.
Please click on the link below to view or download.