Improving National Capacity to Respond to Complex Emergencies - The U.S. Experience

Author(s)
Lute, D.
Publication language
English
Pages
45pp
Date published
01 Apr 1998
Publisher
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Type
Programme/project reviews
Keywords
Conflict, violence & peace, Coordination, Forced displacement and migration, Development & humanitarian aid
Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haiti, Somalia
Organisations
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
Link
http://carnegie.org/fileadmin/Media/Publications/PDF/Improving%20National%20Capa…

In this thought-provoking report, Colonel Douglas Lute argues that the decision-making apparatus in Washington is linked more to the past than the future and that it needs an overhaul. In making his case, he examines recent deployments of U.S. forces in Bosnia, Haiti, and Somalia.