Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 05/2009

Rapid Deployment of Civilians for Peace Operations: Status, Gaps, and Options

Rahul Chandran, Jake Sherman, Bruce Jones, Yoshino Funaki, Anne le More, Shepard Forman, Andrew Hart

April 2009

Center on International Cooperation

Abstract

A thematic debate in the UN Security Council identified three primary weaknesses in international performance to support stabilization and early recovery from conflict: a strategic gap, a financing gap and a capacity gap. Rapid Deployment of Civilians for Peace Operations: Status, Gaps, and Options ,a paper published by CIC, takes a detailed look at the issue of rapidly deployable civilian capacity.