Reconstruction Under Fire

Case Studies and Further Analysis of Civil Requirements

Brooke Stearns Lawson, Terrence K. Kelly, Michelle Parker, Kimberly Colloton, Jessica Watkins

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Successful counterinsurgency (COIN) requires the integration of security and civil COIN to create conditions that allow the population to choose between the government and insurgents, eliminate the grievances that gave rise to the insurgency, and present the population with choices that are more attractive than what the insurgents can offer. Building on a framework for integrating civil and military counterinsurgency first described in Reconstruction Under Fire: Unifying Civil and Military Counterinsurgency, this volume presents an approach to the civil component of counterinsurgency that builds on detailed background, context analysis, and threat analysis to identify and develop critical civil COIN activities. It illustrates this approach using three case studies: Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, Nord-Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Al Anbar province in Iraq. The approach builds on the best aspects of existing conflict assessment methodologies and adds new elements developed specifically for this project. The resulting framework goes beyond the strategic and operational decisions related to designing a program that is appropriate for a given conflict context.

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Stearns Lawson, Brooke, Terrence K. Kelly, Michelle Parker, Kimberly Colloton, and Jessica Watkins, Reconstruction Under Fire: Case Studies and Further Analysis of Civil Requirements, RAND Corporation, MG-870/1-OSD, 2010. As of October 12, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG870z1.html
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Stearns Lawson, Brooke, Terrence K. Kelly, Michelle Parker, Kimberly Colloton, and Jessica Watkins, Reconstruction Under Fire: Case Studies and Further Analysis of Civil Requirements. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2010. https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG870z1.html. Also available in print form.
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