Engineering Peace: The Military Role in Postconflict Reconstruction

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US Institute of Peace Press, 2005 - 317 pages
In practically all the peacekeeping operations of the 1990s, a postconflict reconstruction gap of almost one year separates the end of military peacekeepers' mission of halting mass violence from the start of removing mines as well as rebuilding and repairing the host country's physical infrastructure: roads and bridges, public utilities, and buildings.In this timely work, Colonel Garland Williams analyzes the postconflict reconstruction gap in three case studies Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan and shows how military engineering brigades accompanying peacekeeping contingents can be put to use immediately after the conflict ends to restore vital infrastructure and social institutions. In the book's concluding chapter, Williams proposes changes in U.S. national security decision making to integrate military engineering brigades into postconflict reconstruction, thus making U.S. military officials less wary of mission creep and nation-building."
 

Contents

The New Security Environment
3
Bosnia
65
The Dayton Agreement and Its Implementers
70
IFOR Engineer Project Summary 8889
88
U S Foreign Policy Goals for Bosnia
90
Operational Engineer Assessment Priorities
98
CIMIC Campaign Plan
104
Kosovo
121
KFOR Responsibilities
126
Afghanistan
173
CJCMOTF Commanders IntentKey Tasks
201
A Postconflict Reconstruction Template
217
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Survival, 47.3
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About the author (2005)

Colonel Garland H. Williams, U.S. Army, was the military assistant to the assistant secretary of the army for civil works. From 1999 to 2001, he commanded the 16th Armored Engineer Battalion in Germany, which was deployed to Kosovo during the peacekeeping mission there. As chief of contingency engineering for Allied Forces Southern Europe from 1996 to 1999, Williams served in Sarajevo as part of NATO's Implementation Force staff, coordinating the reconstruction of vital roads, bridges, ports, and airfields damaged during the Bosnian war. He was a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace during 2002-2003.

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