- FTI is developing an Automated Planning Aid for Reconstruction, Stabilization and Conflict Transformation program focus to investigate a method to provide US military planners and their US Government (USG) interagency partners with an automated capability to employ the principles and framework described in the J7 Pamphlet.
- The Strategic Planning Tool addresses the mitigation of all potential risks associated with future efforts. The approach, to document the details associated with the planning process to reduced “latent risk of unknown data inputs” required, support on three levels of planning, Policy Formulation, Strategy Development, and Implementation Planning.
- FTI’s team applied three specific mini-planning scenarios applicable to each level of the planning framework that can enable comprehensive insight into data sources and historical information that are critical to the transformation process. At each level, the candidate data sources was identify and integrated into a framework to categorize and translate objectives into sound and executable strategies and task.
- The transformation process identified several cost effective approach and integrated sample S/CRS data sources into a robust database. The program identified concepts for building consensus among distributed and multinational sets of stakeholders and provided a methodology to demonstrate cost versus implementation risk associated with different potential Course of Action (CoAs) scenarios and provided linkage of critical Major Mission Element (MME) for each task and sub task.
- The MPICE / Social Well-Being investigated an framework approach to provide stabilization and reconstruction planners with a capability to satisfy the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) mission for analysis in three primary areas: (a) leverage and expand the existing metrics framework, (b) integration of multiple types of reconstruction data sources with appropriate analysis algorithms, and (c) comprehensive linking of high level mission areas to Goals to Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) and Measures of Performance (MOPs).
- The investigation process organized imports from the Measuring Progress in a Conflict Environment (MPICE) framework, then provide additional customization and flexibility to define new characteristics of Social Well-Being. The mixture and correlation of the information from MPICE supports an adjunct database containing the potential “Drivers of Conflict” and “Institutional Performance” aspects of the four sectors: Political Moderation and Stable Democracy, Safe and Secure Environment, Rule of Law, and Sustainable Economy. The analysis provided a schema of relationships within Social Well-Being. This analysis addressed the very heart of S/CRS, the citizens; the inhabitants of the geographical area under strife, and the one area which may have been at the core of the conflict from which Recovery is sought - Social Well-Being.
- The Social Well-Being examination process provides categories, subcategories, elements, and indicators to structure the impacts on persons and communities. Methodologies applied to advance the study are the “Freedom from Fear / Freedom from Want” approach, “Peace Building Framework” by John Paul Lederach, “Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs”, and the FTI Decision-Support Technology (I-CAIV®).
- The methodology and configuration selected defines, collects, and measures hard indicators and soft indicators. Hard indicators, contains elements that can be touched, felt, and measured easily by some form of units. Soft indicators usually cannot be touched or felt, yet, are measurable by contrasting and comparing data within a structured process.
- The Social Well-Being framework investigates the relational human dimension which describes the affects of relationships, exposing underlining causes of conflict patterns, a cultural measurement for change of behavioral patterns within an individual /family /group and the way a culture influences the handling of aggression. Peace building is creatively constructed through the transformation of the individual livelihood and the community vision in a human /cultural behavior centered approach.
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D.C. Conroy
Decision Making Products and Solutions:
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