Abstract
Peacekeeping efforts in the Balkans and Afghanistan demonstrated that there is a period from about 1 year to 18 months after the cessation of hostilities when the host nation is in limbo. In most cases, there is not enough infrastructure to facilitate economic recovery, there are not sufficient internal assets to provide the required infrastructure, and there is no external force in place that legally can provide the infrastructure help to promote the necessary economic growth. This chapter examines the complementary capabilities that civilian agencies and military forces bring to a peacekeeping mission demonstrating that a combined approach that meshes these capabilities should result in a more rapid reconstruction timeline. Using the case of Bosnia will illustrate the type of agencies that may be present in a peacekeeping operation and will further demonstrate arising issues when military and civilian forces are not coordinated.
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Williams, G.H. (2016). Reconstructing the Infrastructure of Damaged Societies. In: Lucius, G., Rietjens, S. (eds) Effective Civil-Military Interaction in Peace Operations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26806-4_9
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