Journal," 10 February 2011; and "America Needs Peacekeeping Missions More than Ever,"
Foreign Policy, 10 November 2015.
Implications.
The above recommendation, separately or collectively, stands to generate the following
major benefits:
1) It will increase the effectiveness of U.S. initiatives designed, directly and indirectly,
to enhance partner national military force effectiveness in UN peace operations in
particular and of UN peace operati ons in general.
2) It will enhance U.S. effectiveness in security efforts tangential to UN and partner
nation mission sets.
3) It will enhance U.S. interoperability and effectiveness in multilateral operational
environments.
4) It will maintain or improve influence among those partners as well as in the UN in
the fact of competitor efforts (e.g., China and Russia) to gain influence in those
same regional, national, or institutional spaces.
5) It will help the U.S. better understand its own challenges in civil-military transition
management (i.e., conflict management, war termination, stabilization, and conflict
prevention) as well as civil-military interagency coordination at operational levels
(using the UN field mission model as a point of reference).
Event Description.
This lesson is based on experience as Chief of Civil-Military Coordination, United Nations
Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), 2008-09, and as Senior Course Author, “Civil-Military
Coordination in Peace Operations,” Peace Operations Training Institute.
References.
1. "Civil-Military Coordination and Transition Management: The UNMIL Experience,"
Christopher Holshek, Conflict Trends, Issue 3/2011, African Centre for Constructive
Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), 1 November 2011.
2. "Civil-Military Coordination in Peace Operations," Christopher Holshek and Cedric de
Coning, Peace Operations Training Institute course handbook, 2017 (excerpt).
3. "The UN Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia is Coming to a Successful End," 21 March
2018 podcast interview with Mark Leon Goldberg on UN Dispatch (www.undispatch.com)
Lesson Author: Christopher Holshek, UN Association of the United States, Colonel, U.S.
Army Civil Affairs (ret.).
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