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Media Note: Acting Coordinator for Reconstruction & Stabilization to Speak on The Kyrgyz Republic at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Blog post: Civilian Response: Lessons from Bangladesh

Blog post: Stabilization Teams Support Referendum Process in Sudan

Winter 2010-11 Civilian Response Newsletter
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Blog post: "Working in Paraguay's Northern Zone" / Full Text

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“The Civilian Response Corps puts smart power into action every day. Your efforts help reduce conflict and prevent weak and failing states from becoming havens for terrorists. In just two years, your ranks have grown to over 1,000 civilian responders – you in effect have become an army of peacebuilders.” – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Civilian Response Corps is a group of civilian federal employees who are specially trained and equipped to deploy rapidly to provide reconstruction and stabilization assistance to countries in crisis or emerging from conflict. An innovative partnership, the Corps leverages the necessary range of expertise and experience from eight federal departments and agencies to accomplish the U.S. government’s various reconstruction and stabilization objectives.

The Corps is:

Whole-of-Government
Expeditionary
Innovative

 See Joining the Civilian Response Corps for current opportunities with the Corps.

Whole of Government: Interagency Partnership

Because of the complexities involved in conflict prevention and response, no single government entity can offer all of the relevant expertise necessary to achieve our reconstruction and stabilization objectives. In order to adequately address these complexities and leverage all available resources of the U.S. government to our missions, the Civilian Response Corps is comprised of a partnership of eight departments and agencies from around the federal government. Members of the Corps from all agencies adhere to a single Code of Conduct.

Expeditionary: Ready and Prepared

Corps members go through weeks of extensive training and are specially selected, prepared, and equipped to deploy and operate in hazardous and austere environments with little or no notice.

Innovative: Expertise in the Field

Corps members deploy equipped with the skills, support, experience, lessons learned and best practices of eight agencies in the following critical fields:

• Planning/Operations/Management: assessment planning, base set-up, operations management, and strategic communications;
• Security & Rule of Law: policing, legal administration, justice systems, and corrections programs design and management; 
• Diplomacy/Governance: political reporting, civil administration, democracy and good governance, civil society/media development, and security sector reform;
• Essential Services: public health, public infrastructure, and education and labor assessment;
• Economic Recovery: agriculture, rural development, commerce, taxes, monetary policy, and business/financial services; and
• Force Protection: support to U.S. Embassies in assessing and planning for security/force protection requirements in support of broader contingency and field operations.

Joining the Civilian Response Corps

If you’re interested in working with the Civilian Response Corps, you can find more information here.