Transition Elections and Political Processes in Reconstruction and Stabilization Operations: Lesson Learned
Source: U.S. Department of State | Year: 2007
In the fast-paced environment of reconstruction and stabilization (R&S) operations, it is particularly challenging for U.S. officials to apply best practices and lessons from the past to the unique and sometimes centuries-old country conflicts they encounter. Faced with the high costs of sustaining peacekeeping operations and with the pressure to recognize a legitimate government for development resources to flow, this guide is intended to help USG planners to adapt their decisions intelligently to country circumstances, informed at the outset by several decades of USG best practices.
This guide is a primer for USG officials so that decisions on elections and political parties are informed by best practices and lessons from roughly two decades of prior experience. The guide should inform strategiclevel planning and on-the-ground implementation decisions. Unlike many other guides, it focuses on the election process as well as political parties and voters in pre-election, election-day, and post-election settings. Many of the standard lessons on elections and political processes do not apply, or apply differently, to elections in R&S environments. This guide attempts to capture those differences. It emphasizes how the ensemble of USG resources can best be brought to bear on the election process in R&S operations – which spans from the negotiations over a peace agreement to after the election event.
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