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Cornwallis XIII: Analysis in Support of Policy
The
Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
Cornwallis
Park, Nova Scotia, Canada
17
– 20 March 2008
Initial
Call for Papers and Participation
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The
Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Cornwallis Group will
again be held back at our origination site, The Pearson
Peacekeeping Centre, Cornwallis Park, Nova Scotia, Canada.
This call for papers invites the submission of abstracts
of papers to the Program Committee on the general topic
of Analysis in Support of Policy. The Proceedings
of the Cornwallis Group will be published by the Canadian
Peacekeeping Press.
For
the past decade or so the operators, analysts and researchers
concerned with Peace Operations, Stability and Reconstruction
Operations and similar interventions have slowly come
to a consensus that these operations can be examined
by looking at four or five sectors. These sectors are
generally referred to as Security, Governance/Politics,
Economics, Rule of Law and Social Well Being. Strategic
plans, metrics and bench marks are being developed using
similar frameworks. However, it is not clear how to
determine priorities or commitments in these sectors
when planning for, executing, or assessing a mission
or operation. Security is necessary for success,
yet security alone is not sufficient for political
success. A successful security mission depends
on 'winning the hearts and minds' of the people, but
a long term viable success depends on economic stability.
These statements, indicating the inevitable tensions
within a mission, set up the theme for Cornwallis XIII.
How do we know how much, how many, in what order, with what
priority, with what resources to attempt the tasks included
in these five sectors? The theme addresses Policy –
we will take this to mean the high level objectives
of the mission. Sometimes this will be found in national
strategies and sometimes in the mission level objectives.
The program committee will leave this vague, hoping
to extend the number of interesting papers proposed.
Papers
or project descriptions that discuss how to trade off
between these sectors, innovated approaches to metrics
to quantify or qualify these tradeoffs and models or
simulations to help study these tradeoffs are all appropriate
topics for this workshop.
Requests for participation and abstracts of papers
for the theme of Cornwallis XIII should be sent NO LATER
THAN 15 January 2008 by e-mail to: Ted Woodcock aerw@gmu.edu,
George Rose George.Rose830@mod.uk,
Dave Davis ddavis@gmu.edu;
or to other members of the Program Committee:
Larry Wentz lwentz@bellatlantic.net,
Anders Christensson S.Anders.Christensson@fhs.mil.se,
Paul Chouinard Paul.Chouinard@drdc-rddc.gc.ca,
Gene Visco genevisco@embarqmail.com,
Ann Livingston alivings@peaceoperations.org
and
Karl Bertche karl.bertsche@eads.com
.
Total costs for Cornwallis
XIII are still being determined. However we expect that
they will not exceed $1250.00 Canadian which will include
lodging (Sunday evening through Wednesday night), meals
(beginning Sunday dinner through Thursday lunch) and
registration fees. Transportation costs from the Halifax
airport to Cornwallis Park will be paid separately as
needed.
Preliminary Program
Draft
(4 February 2008)
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