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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)

 

For more information contact admin@thecornwallisgroup.org