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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Appendix A

Agenda

Workshop on
Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding

A National Academy of Engineering/US Institute of Peace Workshop
November 20, 2012
The Keck Center of the National Academies
Room 101, 500 Fifth Street NW
Washington, DC

8:15

Welcome and Introductions

W. Peter Cherry, Independent Consultant, SAIC (ret.)

Samuel Worthington, President and CEO, InterAction

SESSION I: BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW

8:30

Understanding Peacebuilding: Three Perspectives

Moderator:   Sam Worthington

 
 

Presenters:

Beth Cole, Director, Office of Civilian-Military Cooperation, USAID

Kirby Reiling, Conflict Specialist, USAID

Sharon Morris, Director of Youth & Conflict Management, Mercy Corps

 
9:30

Understanding Operational Systems Engineering in Action

Moderator:   Peter Cherry

Presenter: William Rouse, Alexander Humphreys Chair of Economics and Engineering, School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Discussant: Robert Ricigliano, Director, Institute of World Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

 
10:15 BREAK
 
10:30

Identifying Peacebuilding Challenges for OSE Approaches in Kenya, South Sudan, and Haiti

Moderator:   Sam Worthington

Case Study Presenters:

Kenya—Scaling Nonviolent Elections

Presenter: Dorina Bekoe, Research Staff Member, Africa Program, Institute for Defense Analysis

South Sudan—Enhancing Food Security

Presenter: Timothy McRae, Food for Peace, USAID

Haiti—Mitigating and Preventing Violence in Haiti’s IDP Camps

Presenter: Robert M. Perito, Director, Security Sector Governance Center, USIP

SESSION II: WORKING GROUPS FORMULATE ANALYSIS PLANS FOR IDENTIFIED PEACEBUILDING SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ISSUES

11:45

Review Target Systems Analysis Issues for the Working Groups and Guidance

Peter Cherry

 
12:45

Working Groups Session

Working Group A: Scaling Nonviolent Elections in Kenya

Chair: John Birge, Jerry W. and Carol Lee Levin Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

 
 

Working Group B: Enhancing Food Security in South Sudan

Chair: Stephen M. Robinson, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 
 
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Working Group C: Mitigating and Preventing Violence in Haiti’s IDP Camps

Chair: Alfred Blumstein, University Professor and J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University

 
3:00 BREAK

SESSION III: REPORT OUT OF WORKING GROUP DISCUSSIONS

3:15

Working Group Reports and Discussion

Moderator:   Sam Worthington

SESSION IV: ISSUES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND POTENTIAL NEXT STEPS

4:15

Lessons Learned and Paths Forward

Peter Cherry

 
5:30 Adjourn
Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Agenda." National Academy of Engineering. 2013. Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding: Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18598.
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Operational systems engineering is a methodology that identifies the important components of a complex system, analyzes the relationships among those components, and creates models of the system to explore its behavior and possible ways of changing that behavior. In this way it offers quantitative and qualitative techniques to support the design, analysis, and governance of systems of diverse scale and complexity for the delivery of products or services. Many peacebuilding interventions function essentially as the provision of services in response to demands elicited from societies in crisis. At its core, operational systems engineering attempts to understand and manage the supply of services and product in response to such demands.

Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding is the summary of a workshop convened in November 2012 by the Roundtable on Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding of the National Academy of Engineering and the United States Institute of Peace to explore the question "When can operational systems engineering, appropriately applied, be a useful tool for improving the elicitation of need, the design, the implementation, and the effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions?" The workshop convened experts in conflict prevention, conflict management, postconflict stabilization, and reconstruction along with experts in various fields of operational systems engineering to identify what additional types of nonnumerical systems methods might be available for application to peacebuilding.

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