The Role of the Military in International Development

Nov 18 2005 - 12:30pm
Nov 18 2005 - 2:00pm

Military personnel have long operated alongside development organizations, from peacekeeping in conflict zones to humanitarian assistance efforts. Recent events have raised the question of closer collaboration between military personnel and development practitioners. Development has become a constituent part of the U.S. National Security Strategy, along with diplomacy and defense. The reconstruction programs in Iraq and Afghanistan have tasked the military with some traditionally development goals while providing development organizations with some of their biggest challenges to date. These issues, as well as USAID’s Fragile States Strategy and recent creation of an Office of Military Affairs, highlight the need for closer collaboration and sharing of experience between development practitioners and military planners.

 

Join us to hear John Champagne, Senior Military Advisor at USAID; Kent Butts Director, National Security Issues Group, Center for Strategic Leadership, US Army War College; and Bill Durch, Senior Associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, recent Project Director for the Panel on UN Peace Operations discuss what development objectives may be appropriate for military units, such as vital utility infrastructure repair, as well as where development professionals may offer a new and needed perspective to military operations, such as in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants programs. Dana Eyre, a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, will moderate the event. Dr. Eyre recently served as served as Senior Advisor to the USAID Mission in Iraq.
 


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