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Handbook: UN FINCENT Varying Cultures in Modern Crisis Management (1:2009)
Cultural Intelligence, HUMINT, IO Sense-Making, Peace Intelligence, Stabilization, UN/NGO, United Nations & NGOsReview: Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction (Paperback)
6 Star Top 10%, Military, Stabilization, Stabilization & Reconstruction, UN/NGO![cover guiding Amazon Page](http://phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cover-guiding.jpg)
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At its most fundamental this is without question the most extraordinary sensible and useful synthesis of all possible documents devoted to the subject, offering up a truly remarkable–just an amazing–framework for study and for planning.
The publisher failed to make full use of the Amazon tools for showing the Table of Contents at a minimum, and this error should be corrected immediately. Inside the Book is also recommended. I would normally reduce the book to four stars for its failure include all those outside the “traditional” national security community; for its lack of an index, and for its ignorance of most relevant books outside the narrow circle of stabilization & reconstruction groupies. However, this is such an incredibly gifted, intelligent, and meticulous presentation of vitally important information that I leave it at six star special, beyond five stars.
Still, to not be able to see in an index every page for key words like “water” or “intelligence” is infuriating.
First, an overview of the contents, vastly more simple than the complex array of information presented in sub-sets of conditions, guidance, approach, and then elements.
+ Introduction
+ Strategic Framework for Stabilization and Reconstruction
+ Cross-Cutting Principles
+ High-Level Trade-Offs, Gaps, and Challenges
+ Fundamentals of a Comprehensive Approach
+ End States
—Safe and Secure Environment
—Rule of Law
—Stable Governance
—Sustainable Economy
—Social Well-Being
+ Appendices
A. Resources List
B. Participants in Review Process
C. Summary of Strategic Frameworks Surveyed
D. Snapshot of COmpoments from Overarching Resources
E. Acronyms and Glossary of Selected Key Terms (incomplete, another annoyance that needs to be corrected)
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Handbook: 12 Traits of Sustainable Communities
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This is UNDER CONSTRUCTION but still useful to intelligence analysts thinking about stabilization & reconstruction, and when combined with our revolution preconditions matrix, can inform Strategic Communications as well as Information Operations (IO). Notice the emphasis on identifying INDICATORS, in political science this is called “operationalization” and serves to connect outcomes with indicators with data to be observed and evaluated.
Handbook: Guide to Rebuilding Public Sector Services in Stability Operations–A Role for the Military
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Phi Beta Iota: The US Intelligence Community (both civilian and military) still has not accepted the fact that 60% of its effort should be focused on Global Coverage (e.g. the Third World and the non-military high-level threats to humanity) and on relevant information and tailored intelligence necessary to support Stabilization & Reconstruction Operations as well as what General Al Gray, USMC (Ret), then Commandant of the Marine Corps, called “peaceful preventive measures.” See also:
Handbook: Harvard on Congress & Intelligence
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Confrontation or Collaboration? Congress and the Intelligence Community
Memorandum, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
July 2009
Authors: Eric Rosenbach, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Aki J. Peritz
CONTENTS
Click any of the links below to read and download the individual memos online.
You can download the complete report containing all the memos at the bottom of this page.
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Handbook: Intelligence for First Responders
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Phi Beta Iota: Slick in a nice way–does not get any simpler. Someone tried hard. Three sucking chest wounds:
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