Topic: Humanitarian interventions
When it comes to post-conflict and post-disaster reconstruction, we have seen a proliferation of so-called “lessons learned” reports. The aim of such reports, which have addressed multiple missions from a myriad of different viewpoints, is most fundamentally to identify mistakes and failings, and explore how such mistakes could have been avoided, prevented or otherwise addressed, so as to ensure the improvement of reconstruction practice.
This essay questions requires you to select one reconstruction mission, or an individual project within a given mission, and analyse it in terms of the lessons that can be drawn from it.
