Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Garland H. Williams
Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
Imprint: United States Institute of Peace Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9781929223572
ISBN 10: 1929223579
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 15 July 2004
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unknown
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Colonel Williams has written a provocative book that gets to the heart of post-war planning. His work identifies lessons from three post-Cold War interventions and offers a framework for addressing postconflict reconstruction. I'd recommend it for anyone undertaking postconflict planning.
Colonel Williams has written a provocative book that gets to the heart of post-war planning. His work identifies lessons from three post-Cold War interventions and offers a framework for addressing postconflict reconstruction. I'd recommend it for anyone undertaking postconflict planning.--George Casey, General, U.S. Army
Author Information
Colonel Garland R. 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.
