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This monograph Finding the Balance: U.S. Military Operations examines the U.S. Military’s struggle to find the correct balance between conventional and counterinsurgency/stability approaches. The author uses history to remind us that at the end of wars, Armies often “throw the baby out with the bathwater” and revert to a default position for organization and doctrine instead of inculcating those lessons learned in the recent wars. History shows us that we do not maintain capabilities and capacity to conduct operations in complex environments.

This monograph A Continuation of Politics by Other Means: The “Politics” of a Peacekeeping Mission in Cambodia (1992-93) uses the UN Cambodian peacekeeping mission of 1992-93, considered a great success by many, to examine the complexities involved in UN peacekeeping missions and to illustrate the primacy of the political context in determining success.

This issue of the Peace & Stability Journal features articles on the Training and Education Conference Report, the United Nations Challenges Forum, the PKSOI approach to leader development in Peace & Stability Operations, the Strategic Advisor, and Peace-gaming with the Green Country Model.

Targeting Peace & Stability Ops Lessons & Best Practices. This lessons-learned compendium contains just a sample – thus the title of “sampler” – of the observations, insights, and lessons related to Economic Stabilization available in the SOLLIMS data repository. These observations are worth sharing with military commanders and their staffs, as well as civilian practitioners with a Stability Operations-related mission / function – those currently deployed into conflict environments, those planning to deploy, the institutional Army, policy makers and other international civilian and military leaders at the national and theater level.

This paper Lessons Learned from U.S. Government Law Enforcement in International Operations has been produced as a part of the Law Enforcement Capabilities Project (LECP). The LECP is an initiative of the Emerging Capabilities Division (ECD) within the Rapid Reaction Technology Office (RRTO) of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).

This SOLLIMS Sampler Volume 2 Issue 1- Transition to Local Governance compendium contains just a sample – thus the title of “sampler” – of the observations, insights, and lessons related to Economic Stabilization available in the JKO data repository transferred from the former SOLLIMS database. These observations are worth sharing with military commanders and their staffs, as well as civilian practitioners with a Stability Operations-related mission / function – those currently deployed into conflict environments, those planning to deploy, the institutional Army, policy makers and other international civilian and military leaders at the national and theater level.

Peace & Stability Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1 features articles on the 5th Annual Training & Education Conference, Children Trafficking and the Stain on Humanity, the Rule of Law and Justice in Security Sector Reform, and the issues, challenges, and solutions to the Transitions Conference.

SOLLIMS Sampler Volume 1 Issue 2- Rule of Law is the second release of a SOLLIMS Sampler and the focus is on RoL and legitimacy in governance. This lessons-learned compendium contains just a sample – thus the title of “sampler” – of the observations, insights, and lessons related to the protection of civilians in conflict environments available in the JKO data repository transferred from the former SOLLIMS database. These observations are worth sharing with military commanders and their staffs, as well as civilian practitioners with a Stability Operations-related mission / function – those currently deployed into conflict environments, those planning to deploy, the institutional Army, policy makers and other international civilian and military leaders at the national and theater level.

This monograph Harnessing Post Conflict Transitions: A Conceptual Primer addresses the challenging topic of transition in post-conflict stability operations and is intended for a wide audience that includes military and civilian policymakers, international development experts, and scholars in academe. It is a primer, systematic review, and comprehensive assessment of the fields of research and practice.

The establishment of an effective police force is critical to security sector reform, justice sector reform, and the successful transition to the host nation’s security forces. But the United States lacks the institutional capacity to provide an immediate and coordinated civilian police training and advisory effort, particularly in a failed or fragile state.