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Since the early 1990s, multinational stabilization efforts in the wake of conflicts or major natural disasters have repeatedly encountered problems in filling the so-called security gap. In places such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, outside interveners have faced a compelling need to use specialized capabilities that can fill the gap between the point where military operations—whether for combat, peacekeeping, or counterinsurgency—leave off and community-based policing activities pick up. In particular, ensuring a capacity to manage and defuse civil disturbances and other threats to public order has become a sine qua non for overall mission success.1

Document Type

Policy Brief

Region(s)

Europe, Euro-Atlantic

Topic(s)

National Security, Defense Policy, Future Strategic Concepts

Publication Date

11-2005

Publication

Strategic Forum

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Keywords

constabulary forces postconflict, postconflict transition Euro-Atlantic, NATO stabilization operations, peacekeeping operations Europe, military governance post conflict, security sector reform, post conflict reconstruction forces, multinational stabilization missions, U.S.-NATO post conflict engagement, civil-military coordination post conflict

Constabulary Forces and Postconflict Transition: The Euro-Atlantic Dimension

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