Speaker's Corner on Civil-Military Cooperation
on Economic Recovery in Iraq and Afghanistan
     April 1-3 2008

• Day 1: PRT Evolution in Iraq - Guest moderator Frank Gunter, Associate Professor of Economics at Lehigh University, discussed the broad military economic development strategy in Iraq. He discussed how PRTs have evolved in Iraq and the types of partnerships, structures, and programming activities that have been used.
• Day 2: An Inside Look at PRTs in Afghanistan - Guest moderator Rick Carbone, General Development Officer of the PRT in Gardez, Afghanistan, took the participants inside one of the PRTs. Rick described, among other things, how the Gardez PRT, the first in Afghanistan, works to identify and select economic programs and how it structures activities with civilian organizations.  
• Day 3: Are PRTs the best form of civil-military cooperation? - Guest moderator Marc Chandler, Brown Brothers Harriman and NYU, discussed the broader picture view of civil-military cooperation. Building on Day 1 and 2, the third day explored other civil-military forms of cooperation and the broader issues of economic growth for countries emerging from conflict and the issues around the expanded role of the military in nation building.

Documents

Speaker's Corner Compilation Document - Civil Military Cooperation    Civil Military Cooperation SC Summary_April 2008.pdf     Publication Date   04/2008      
Speaker's Corner Summary Report: Civil-Military Cooperation on Economic Recovery in Iraq and Afghanistan    Civil-Military Cooperation SC Summary Report.pdf     Publication Date   04/2008      
Note from Afghanistan: Civil-Military Cooperation in Microenterprise Development    Note_from_Afghanistan.pdf     Publication Date   03/2008      
Provincial Reconstruction Teams: Lessons and Recommendations    WWWSPIA - PRTs Lessons and Recommendations Jan2008.pdf     Publication Date   01/2008      
The Iraq Microfinance Strategy    IZDIHAR_Iraq Microfinance Strategy_ 2-25-07_FINAL_.doc     Publication Date   02/2007      
Iraq PRTs    USAID - Iraq PRTs-Fall 2007.pdf     Publication Date   10/2007      
Provincial Reconstruction Teams: Afghanistan vs. Iraq - Should We Have a Standard Model?    John Drolet_PRTs - Afghanistan vs Iraq.pdf     Publication Date   03/15/2006      

Website Link

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Discussions

Civil-Military Cooperation Discussion Forum ID: 22448

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Forum Wrap Up and Thank You As we are coming to the end of Day 3, I would like to thank all of you for your contributions and very thoughtful remarks. I especially want to thank our moderators Frank Gunter, Rick Carbone and Marc ...	525		4
How to make the interagency process work? Mayada has made some good points and observations. Without digressing too much, the biggest friction that arises between agencies is the lack of concurrent development of a joint plan and objective. ...	594		8
Day 3: Welcome Day 3 It seems that there is nearly universal agreement that enhanced civil-military cooperation and coordination could help, but perhaps owing to the luxury I have of sitting safe and sound, as it were, in ...	478		2
Day 3: Welcome Day 3 It seems from yesterday's discussion that increased civilian/USIAD and military coordination would increase the opportunities for success and I think there were a number of concrete examples and ...	563		13
Development and Inter-Agency Coordination Between Professor Gunter and Col Bunn, I understand that part of the strain arises from the sequence of needs and events, like Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs--that the restoration of essential ...	496		1
Re: Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan Hi Vince,I would like to posit the consideration of the current Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) model in Afghanistan captured for the moment and applied in 1990 Mogadishu, Somalia; or perhaps a ...	522		2
Question 2: PRT and Microfinance Question 2: Should PRT in Iraq continue to support the establishment and expansion of microfinance institutions (MFI)? Best practices in microfinance state that political stability is a minim ...	570		10
Re: Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan Hi Mayada,While I was with REDSO in Nairobi, it was mandatory for everyone to take the two-week CTO training. Not that you were going to become a CTO, but so that you understood some of the boundaries ...	639		14
Day 2 Done Hello Friends, I will keep this brief. I think Day 3 is going to be a very interesting session. I have responded to some of the comments from Hank, Vince, Lisa and Del that I hadn't seen last nig ...	541		1
Re: Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan Hi Hank!! My goodness, are you kidding? That would be great news! Right now, it is only the interagency PRT personnel that are paying federal income tax as "official" Americans. That would be ...	514		2
Re: Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan Hi Friends,There is a further complication around the corner.PRT Gardez is currently an Air Force-led PRT. That means the PRT Commander is from the Air Force. But the current PRT Gardez Cycle 7 SECFOR ...	668		4
Re: Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan Hi Hank!! Maybe we can get Tony back at some point in Day 3 to elaborate on the new investment in TTB Patriot pre-deployment training at Ft. Bragg!! Cheers, Rick Formatted b ...	512		1
Re: Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan Hello Lisa, Your question is an interesting one. I would say yes; they have experienced negative effects from the closeness of the association. But under the theory of unintended consequences, ...	515		1
Re: Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan   Hi Vince,Thank you very much for your suggestion. What do you know about the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)? Could they be contacted to perform a PRT function similar to the ...	521		2
Re: Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan     Hello Friends,I want to thank Mayada for her comment but allow me to clarify. I am the USAID member of Team Paktya. The USAID programming portfolio is an integral part of Team ...	586		3
Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan Hello Friends!I am about to turn into a pumpkin. It is 0030L/2000Z and tomorrow is another day. Thank you all for your participation today and I look forward to following your Day 3 discussions with ...	500		1
Re: Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan Hello Friends,Yesterday, we had a visitor from BearingPoint stay on the FOB while he went to the Da Afghanistan Bank's Regional Office in Gardez City to supervise the introduction of a new Core ...	498		1
Re: Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan Hi Hank!!I was hoping to hear from you tonight! And now I have contact information for you, so I will be bugging you from time to time if you don't mind.This is one of those areas that the civilians ...	483		1
Day 2: Inside the PRT in Afghanistan Hello Friends, I welcome you to Day 2 of this online civ-mil dialogue, and thanks to Frank and all the other folks who contributed to the dialogue yesterday. It's Day 2! Rise and shine! ...	1272		4
Summary of Day 1 Question 1: Differences in Civilian and Military Cultures Lisa Tarantino emphasized that the coordination of civilian and military efforts in the planning and design of economic developme ...	511		2
Question 1: Differences in Civilian and Military Cultures Welcome to the discussion! Who am I? Frank R. Gunter. After two decades as an academic economist, I went to Iraq as a Marine Reservist for thirteen months in 2005-2006. During the second half of this ...	957		11
Welcome I would like to start off the day by welcoming all of you to this forum. We look forward to your ideas, thoughts and constructive dialogue on the topic of civil-military cooperation in Iraq and ...	574		1
Welcome to this online discussion April 1-3 Welcome! This is the main event area where the messages in the April 1-3 Speaker's Corner on Civil-Military Cooperation on Economic Growth in Iraq and Afghanistan will be posted. You can participate ...	626		2
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