VOLUME 9 | NUMBER 1 S OCTOBER 2013 OE NGAGING PARTNERS GLOBALLY FOR STABILITY, PEACE & DEVELOPMENT W S M A C S B B L L T C PUBLISHED BY A S S O 1 OCTOBER ‘13 2 S O OCTOBER ‘13 S O ENGAGING PARTNERS GLOBALLY FOR VOLUME 9 | NUMBER 1 OCTOBER 2013 STABILITY, PEACE & DEVELOPMENT THIS ISSUE 9 11 15 24 26 lobal FEATURE G erspectives Why Stability P 24 Libya Formalizing a Fragmented Security Sector Matters Frederic Wehrey Learning from Haiti 9 Does Stability Matter? 26 A Fundamental Foreign Policy Question Disaster Relief & Crisis Response 3 Years Later Omar Daair Jonathan Freeman 11 Beyond Lessons Learned Reengaging the Public about Civilian Capabilities Interview Dr. Robert Lamb Q 21 A conversation with Stuart Bowen A New U.S. Model for Stability 13 The Stability Operations A Industry A Pivot (Back) to Peacekeeping Doug Brooks From 15 The Civilian Assistance Solution F Headquarters Assisting Victims Of Conflict In Their H Communities 4 From the Editor’s Desk Michael Stanisich 5 President’s Message 28 ISOA Member News & Jobs Board 29 ISOA Membership Directory From Headquarters | From the Editor’s Desk S Talking About Stability O ENGAGING PARTNERS GLOBALLY FOR STABILITY, PEACE & DEVELOPMENT A Review of ISOA’s Activities: Summer 2013 STABILITY OPERATIONS MAGAZINE IS THE WORLD’S Jessica Mueller ONLY PUBLICATION EXPLORING TOPICS PERTINENT TO PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND NONGOVERNMENTAL SECTOR OUNTING DOWN from the sweltering heat of Summer to the pleasant and beautiful Fall always ACTORS PARTNERING IN PEACE AND STABILITY OPERATIONS. SO IS PUBLISHED SIX TIMES PER YEAR means the same thing to me: intense preparation for our flagship event, the Annual Summit. As BY ISOA, A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP OF PRIVATE temperatures slide lower, our team ramps up for the event that stands alone as the premier forum SECTOR AND NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS C PROVIDING CRITICAL SERVICES IN FRAGILE for government, industry, civil society and academia to engage in thoughtful dialogue on the future of ENVIRONMENTS WORLDWIDE. stability, peace and development. Throughout the planning process for the Annual Summit, the ISOA team performs extensive research and consults with our members on a regular and frequent basis. My phone rings daily with member calls, as our Editor‐in‐Chief volunteer leaders share helpful suggestions for topics, speakers and invitees. While event logistics and Jessica Mueller planning committee coordination fill daily to-do lists with plenty of tasks, Summit planning is less a workday burden and more so a tremendously useful tool. Those daily member conversations often evolve in to Assistant Editor insightful exchanges of thoughts, ideas and observations on all things stability. Theresa Jacobs Kiarash Rhanama It was those conversations at the beginning of the Summer that framed my entire approach to this issue of Publisher Stability Operations. Member after member that I spoke with emphasized the evolving lens through which ISOA, Ado Machida, President their senior leadership viewed the stability space—from policy, to potential clients, to the vulnerable populations that they could help. Across the stability operations industry, there is consensus that we are now in a period of transition, triggering uneasiness over the uncertainty of the future. But alongside this ISOA welcomes submissions for all SO trepidation is an overwhelming realization of the importance of a new understanding of stability and the magazine content. The editorial team major role that the implementing community plays in ensuring it. reserves the right to accept or reject submissions for print and/or online use. This trend of redefining stability was not exclusive to the private sector and nongovernmental community. As The opinions expressed herein or on peaceops.com Ado and I sat down for meetings with some of the Embassy officials from various countries based here in do not necessarily represent the opinions of ISOA, its Washington, we asked for their perspectives on stability. What we found was yet another consensus— officers, Board of Directors, members or affiliates. ISOA bears no responsibility for the editorial content. despite the U.S. interpretation of the word over the past decade, the international community does not view Views expressed in articles are those of the authors. stability as an inherently military challenge. The hard lesson that we all seem to be learning over and over again is that stability is an end result of many, diverse programs, implemented across many, diverse No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without permission sectors, by many, diverse implementers and strategies. Peacebuilding, security sector reform, agricultural in writing from the Editor-in-Chief. development, women’s empowerment, democracy development, infrastructure construction, humanitarian ISOA members receive a limited number of aid—these elements should not be separated from one another in the ways that they so often have been. subscriptions included in their membership package. Individual annual subscriptions are available for And while stability is the desired result of these programs, it is not the final result. Long term, sustainable, $30 (US & Canada) and $50 (International). civilian and community led development and economic growth are the markers for success. As the divergent Advertising packages are available. implementing community—military and civilians, companies and NGOs, civil society and the private sector— Contact ISOA for pricing and information at work toward a common goal, the prevalence and frequency of crises can be mitigated and vulnerable [email protected]. populations can shrug the cloaks of instability that have shrouded them for so long. Formerly the Journal of International Peace Operations (JIPO) and the IPOA Quarterly. As we celebrate the 8th Annual Summit, nearly 13 years of ISOA, and nearly a decade in print, we look forward to providing continued thought leadership on stability, a unified voice for the implementing community, and a forum to address the many challenges to success. The Summit program is aimed at The Publication of the thoughtfully engaging experts across sectors on future transitions, emerging markets, trends, and many INTERNATIONAL STABILITY OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION other topics that help paint a comprehensive picture of stability. As the conversation continues, we invite you 2025 M St. NW, Suite 800 to join us—and help define the future of stability across the globe. ■ Washington, D.C. 20036, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Jessica Mueller is the Director of Programs & Operations at the International Stability Operations Association (ISOA) www.stability-operations.org/SOmagazine and the Editor-in-Chief of Stability Operations magazine. Contact Mrs. Mueller at [email protected]. ISSN 1933-8189 Copyright © 2013 International Stability Operations Association (ISOA). S O All rights reserved. The ISOA logo is a trademark of ISOA. Stability 4 Operations magazine (SO) and its logo are trademarks of ISOA. OCTOBER ‘13 From Headquarters | President’s Message It’s Time to Roll Up Our Sleeves… A Message from the ISOA President Ado A. Machida T’S TIME TO ROLL UP OUR coming decade, and I think there is a lot we can vital and functioning partnership. We are the SLEEVES AND GET WORKING. do as an industry to help shape our own future. industry that “gets things done” when the “going I While I have been in the position of gets tough” – whether that be in fragile and President of the ISOA for only a short time, I I saw this quote recently from Jack Lew, U.S. complex environments, disaster relief, have already learned a lot about our industry. Secretary of the Treasury: humanitarian efforts, emerging markets – we Over the last few months, however, one thing are the industry that has been there before, has become very clear to me – we face a lot of The US is the indispensable country in the know what needs to get done, and how to get it significant and unprecedented challenges. world, but we can’t operate alone everywhere in done. The products, technologies, and the world. We have to lead, we have to have a services ISOA members provide need to be Several recent events have created major shaping will, and we also have to have heralded, applauded, and utilized. And, we can obstacles to growth in our industry: (1) the 2013 recognition that in a world of emerging powers do so by providing strategic and common sense Budget Sequestration which has reduced and limited resources, we can get more done thought leadership, vision, and most important- resources at the Defense Department (one of working together. Working together doesn’t just ly, our voice to key decision makers. our industry’s principal government clients); (2) mean between countries, it means public and the on-going impasse between the Congress private sector working together, it means the So, where do we begin? Here are some and the Obama Administration which threatens NGO world working with the public parties….It thoughts: to cause a 2014 Budget Sequestration; (3) the is in the US interest for developing countries in pending draw down of men and women in the world to be stable and prosperous. It is in We should establish platforms to partner uniform from Afghanistan in 2014. As a result, the US National Security and in the economic with government officials in the strategy and our industry is poised for a budget crunch interest. planning phases of both military and civilian unlike any we have seen in the past decade. stability operations, foreign aid program- But, while many are predicting “doom and I agree wholeheartedly. So, let’s take this ming, reconstruction, and disaster relief. gloom,” I believe that these challenges also responsibility as partners seriously. We need One way to do this is to create a Stability present unique opportunities for growth in the to help develop the policies that will lead to a Continued on next page Ado A.