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tary planning staff. These efforts included the development of an interagency planning handbook,45 numerous tabletop exercises envisioning R&S responses
in countries such as Guinea46 and Haiti,47 as well as
jointly organized conferences and workshops to test
and train the concepts for both active and standby
members of the Crisis Response Corps.48
As with the policy innovations, these planning efforts ran into bureaucratic resistance and ultimately
failed. After investing much of its time and energy in
creating planning tools, S/CRS was never able to generate sufficient demand for them from among their
principal client base: U.S. embassies in conflict-affected countries. Part of the resistance stemmed fro