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7. Nina M. Serafino, Peacekeeping/Stabilization and Conflict Transitions: Background and Congressional Action on the Civilian Response/
Reserve Corps and other Civilian Stabilization and Reconstruction Capabilities (Washington: Congressional Research Service, June 16,
2009), 9. However, the Reconstruction and Stabilization Civilian
Management Act of 2008, which formally enshrined S/CRS into
law, specified that the president, rather than the secretary of state,
appoints the S/CRS coordinator, with the advice and consent of
the Senate; he or she then reports to the Secretary of State. Nora
Bensahel, Olga Oliker, Heather Peterson. Improving Capacity for
Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations (Santa Monica, CA:
RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2009), 37.
8. Bush, NSPD-44, 4.
9. Gordon England, Military Support for Stability, Security,
Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTR) Operations, Department of
Defense Instruction 3000.05 (Arlington, VA: Department of Defense, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, November 28, 2005), 2.
10. Ibid., 3.
11. Ibid.
12. Nina Serafino, Department of Defense “Section 1207” Security and Stabilization Assistance: Background and Congressional Concerns, FY2006-FY2010 (Washington: Congressional Research Service, March 3, 2011), 2.
13. See for example U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM),
U.S. Government Draft Planning Framework for Reconstruction, Stabilization, and Conflict Transformation, United States Joint Forces
Command J7 Pamphlet, Version 1.0 (Norfolk, VA: USJFCOM, December 1, 2005).
14. Nina M. Serafino, Catherine Dale, and Pat Towell, Building Civilian Interagency Capacity for Missions Abroad: Key Proposals
and Issues for Congress (Washington: Congressional Research Service, February 9, 2012), 13.
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