Civilian Response Corps

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Africa

Central African Republic

In March 2011, Civilian Response Corps members from the Departments of Justice and State, and staff from S/CRS, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of Defense deployed to the U.S. Embassy in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR). The team traveled throughout CAR, interviewing over 730 Central Africans as part of a conflict assessment to better understand present and potential causes of instability in the area. Using these findings, the team helped the Embassy develop a strategic plan to combat the Lord’s Resistance Army and regional instability in East-Central Africa, including Uganda, CAR, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Chad

Members of the Civilian Response Corps deployed to N’djamena and eastern Chad in 2007 to report on refugees from the neighboring Darfur region of Sudan, internally displaced Chadians, and rebel movements in the eastern part of the country. The ground-level reporting, and an S/CRS-facilitated conflict assessment, enhanced policymakers’ understanding of the drivers of conflict in the region.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Planning and technical experts from S/CRS and the Civilian Response Corps carried out a number of assessments in 2009 and 2010 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to identify key conflict drivers and areas for greater collaboration with the government of the DRC. Several 1207 projects also seek to mitigate conflict, including through increased judicial services, support to mobile courts, and training for border police, military investigators, prosecutors, and magistrates. S/CRS continues to provide a security sector reform expert to enhance UN efforts to coordinate international assistance to the DRC’s armed forces.

Somalia

Civilian Response Corps members from the Departments of State and Justice supported a 2009 joint U.S.-UN security sector assessment based in Kenya. The team focused on justice, police, and cross-cutting issues. The assessment helped identify key security sector priorities and gaps, created a shared understanding of requirements among international partners and helped inform multilateral donor meetings focused on building Somali security institutions.

Sudan

Most recently, the Office of the Special Envoy for Sudan (S/USSES) requested S/CRS support to the USG observations of the April 2010 elections; assistance in developing strategic and contingency plans around the January 2011 referendum and Darfur; and concept development, execution and staffing of a “diplomatic expansion” in Southern Sudan. Between 2006 and 2008, Civilian Response Corps members stood up and staffed a field office in El Fasher, Darfur, and created “Peace Secretariats” in both Khartoum and El Fasher.

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