PKSOI Publications
The Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute is committed to support the Peace and Stability Operations community with high quality publications developed through a disciplined approach to research and analysis that addresses USG and international policy-relevant issues at both the national / strategic level and in support of the US and multinational operational forces and interagency elements. Through our comprehensive publications program we look to provide visibility to the challenging Peace and Stability Operations issues facing the nation and the world and hopefully stimulate thought and analysis to come to recommendations and solutions to tough problems. We eagerly solicit your contributions to this effort.
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PKSOI Papers |
A Field Primer for Interpreting Statistics and Creating Survey Questions
Author: Hai Do and Karen Finkenbinder
The genesis of this guide started at a meeting between PKSOI and the Department of Distance Education (DDE) at the Army War College (AWC). During this meeting, a discussion occurred in which we all realized that neither the resident nor distance courses of study require a statistics or research methods course. However, as part of the directed study we were discussing, we were finding that some students were quite interested in using statistics and survey questions. Further, we began to reflect back on our own student advising expe
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Smart Research Leveraging Interns and Fellows to Enhance your Research Program
Author: Karen Finkenbinder and Richard Parsons
This paper is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the general issues surrounding an internship program. It answers such questions as: What is an intern or fellow? Where do you find them? What are the requirements? What do they do? What are the legal considerations? What are the security issues? The second part is what we call a “How To” section. It is the nuts and bolts of starting an internship program. It is also the boring part, though efforts have been made so it doesn’t read like the U.S. tax code. We st
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Ground Truth in Building Human Security
Author: Douglas Batson
During the Cold War, United Nations (UN) peacekeepers patrolled buffer zones between warring interstate parties who had signed a peace agreement and consented to the UN’s “blue helmet” presence. Post-Cold War conflicts, on the other hand, have been chiefly of the intrastate variety with its attending complexities. When UN peacekeepers deploy today, they often find no uniformed enemy to contain and no peace to keep. Donning instead blue berets, as befitting their peacebuilding vice peacekeeping role, they encounter populati
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Hearts and Minds: A Strategy of Conciliation, Coercion, or Commitment?
Author: Lieutenant Colonel Karl E. Nell
The efficacy of the hearts-and-minds concept as initially propounded by British Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer in 1952 to address a communist guerrilla insurgency during the Malayan Emergency has subsequently assumed a storied—even jaded—reputation within Western military establishments not to mention the American psyche. Whether unfairly maligned, inappropriately modified, or simply misunderstood, hearts-and-minds remains at the forefront of today’s counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine largely resulting from General David
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Perspectives |
Reconstruction and Stabilization Continuity of Operation: Insights from Iraq Provincial Reconstruction Teams
Author: Brett Doyle
Part of the problem is new people come in and it takes them about three months to figure out what is going on a PRT [Provincial Reconstruction Team] ... Projects might be better managed if there was project continuity from the incumbent to their replacement. However, since there is typically no left/right seat handoff that usually results in the new guy taking over an old, non-value-add project because he/she does not know where else to start. Or, they throw everything out and start the ‘new project of the month. – Interv (Click here to read review)
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PKSOI Collaborative Works |
Protection of Civilians Military Reference Guide
Author: PKSOI
The Protection of Civilians (PoC) refers to efforts that protect civilians from physical violence, secure their rights to access essential services and resources, and contribute to a secure, stable, and just environment for civilians over the long-term. PoC is a moral, political, legal, and strategic priority for
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