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Police --- Internal security --- Nation-building --- Counterinsurgency --- Afghanistan --- Afghanistan. --- Militia.

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This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations, using a comparative case study methodology. Complex operations are collaborative and coordinated military and civilian agency activities executed to restore stability to fragile states, and to aid the transition to democratic governance operating under the rule of law. All actors engaged in complex stability operations need to understand the requirements for effective civil-military and interagency coordination from different perspectives (military, civilian, diplomacy, development, allied, local). Effective conflict prevention and transformation requires greater coherence between security, governance and development policies along with enhanced coordination among governmental agencies and with local, regional and international partners (as in 'smart power' - pursuing the right tools for each operational context). Conflict management strategies and whole-of-government approaches are closely connected. In fragile states and post-conflict societies, security, governance and development are challenges that need to be addressed simultaneously and in coordinated fashion.As a consequence of the multitude of threats, actors and tasks in such operations, decisions will cut across a wide range of social, political and cultural domestic and global issues and demand cognitive flexibility, adaptability and the ability to make decisions 'on the fly'. The need for strategic and operational decision-making at every turn requires that the actors - military and civilian alike - acquire the mental agility, interpersonal maturity and cross-cultural savvy. These competencies need to be ingrained into the readily available skill sets for military and civilian leaders so they become second-nature to their decision-making. The case studies in this volume integrate research - theoretical and empirical - that effectively identifies patterns of conflict, characteristics of complex operations and conditions for their effective conduct. It thereby provides educational materials for introducing and actively engaging students and practitioners in the intricacies of contemporary national security decision-making.

INTEGRATED OPERATIONS (MILITARY SCIENCE) --- ARMED FORCES--STABILITY OPERATIONS --- NATION-BUILDING --- PEACE-BUILDING --- POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION --- CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

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This book focuses on the experience of statebuilding and constitution-making after violent conflict. Using the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of Europe's most divided societies, as a vehicle to reflect on the fundamental questions of post-war statebuilding, the book asks under what circumstances external factors may affect the interests, goals, and strategies of local actors in post-conflict, divided settings. Providing an in-depth study of constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the book focuses on the reform of Dayton and the aftermath of these attempted reforms from 2006 to 2013 that many analysts have considered the beginning of a period in which the statebuilding process began to unravel amidst increasing inter-ethnic tensions. With a range of interviews from key players involved in the state-building process, the author explores the interactions between international and local elites in the unfolding of statebuilding, and questions why Bosnia and Herzegovina went into such decline after 2006. This process-driven and actor-centric approach brings new perspectives to the debate on post-conflict statebuilidng, informing policy decisions in peacebuilding, and statebuilding processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other divided societies.

NATION-BUILDING--BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA --- CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA --- DAYTON PEACE ACCORDS (1995)

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Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume is part of the subseries Studia Russica Helsingiensia et Tartuensia, XIV, and unites scholars from Estonia, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and Canada who belong to the tradition of the Tartu Lotman school. This collective monograph explores the development of national myth on the basis of a variety of materials from Russian culture, beginning from the Late Middle Ages and finishing with the Soviet epoch. The main part of the study is devoted to the Imperial period — the epoch during which the notion of nation arises. Analyzing the mechanisms used to construct national ideology, the authors especially stress the participation of literature and art in nation building: the role of the press, theatre, writers and their works in their dependence upon historical matters and political conjuncture.

Russian culture --- Russian literature --- national myth --- national ideology --- nation building --- patriotism --- identity construction

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Foreign-backed funding for education does not always stabilize a country and enhance its state building efforts. Dana Burde shows how aid to education in Afghanistan bolstered conflict both deliberately in the 1980's through violence-infused, anti-Soviet curricula and inadvertently in the 2000's through misguided stabilization programs. She also reveals how dominant humanitarian models that determine what counts as appropriate aid have limited attention and resources toward education, in some cases fueling programs that undermine their goals. For education to promote peace in Afghanistan, Burde argues we must expand equal access to quality community-based education and support programs that increase girls' and boys' attendance at school. Referring to a recent U.S. effort that has produced strong results in these areas, Burde commends the program's efficient administration and good quality, and its neutral curriculum, which can reduce conflict and build peace in lasting ways. Drawing on up-to-date research on humanitarian education work amid conflict zones around the world and incorporating insights gleaned from extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Burde recalculates and improves a popular formula for peace.

Political sociology --- Politics --- Education --- Schools --- Education and state --- Nation-building --- Economic assistance, American --- Humanitarian assistance, American