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Prism
 The Center for Complex Operations is pleased to announce the release of Volume 1, no. 4 of PRISM, the journal of complex operations. PRISM is available for online viewing and download here.

This issue's articles include:

Marc Grossman: Diplomacy Before and After Conflict
Diplomats have always been participants in both the prevention and management of conflict and its aftermath. The conflict prevention side of diplomacy occupied much of my time at the State Department from 1993 to 1997 as the Department's Executive Secretary and U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. Postconflict diplomacy was a defining issue of the last third of my career at State as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2001 to 2005. I have tried to draw upon my experiences and observations to discuss here the scope and complexity of modern diplomacy, the methods and goals needed to prevent conflict, diplomacy's role when conflict is or seems to be unavoidable, and the contribution diplomacy can make to restoring stability following conflict.

 

To subscribe to the paper version of PRISM, please contact us.

 

 

CCO has released the seventh in an ongoing series of educational case studies in complex operations:

Disarmament in South Sudan by Cecily Brewer

Student and Teacher Editions are both available

We hope you enjoy them and look forward to your feedback.

 

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Prism Journal

PRISM is a quarterly national security journal tailored to serve policy-makers, scholars and practitioners working to enhance U.S. Government competency in complex operations by exploring whole-of-community approaches among U.S. Government agencies, academic institutions, international governments and militaries, non-governmental organizations and other participants in the complex operations space. PRISM is chartered by the Center for Complex Operations (CCO) and it welcomes articles on a broad range of complex operations issues, especially those that focus on the nexus of civil-military integration. Available here ยป