Stability Operation - correct answer ✔An operation conducted outside the
United States in coordination with other instruments of national power to
establish or maintain a secure environment and provide essential
governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and
humanitarian relief.
Fundamentals of Stabilization - correct answer ✔- Conflict transformation.
- Unity of effort.
- Building host-nation capacity and capabilities.
- Host-nation ownership and legitimacy.
Conflict Transformation - correct answer ✔The process for addressing the
underlying causes of violent conflict while developing viable, peaceful
alternatives for people to meet their needs and pursue their political and
socioeconomic aspirations.
Unity of Effort - correct answer ✔Coordination and cooperation toward
common objectives, even if the participants are not of the same command
organization (product of unified action).
Legitimacy - correct answer ✔A condition based upon the perception by
specific audiences of the legality, morality, or rightness of a set of actions and
of the propriety of the authority of the individuals or organizations in taking
them.
4 Factors of Legitimacy - correct answer ✔1. Mandate
2. Manner
3. Consent
, 4. Expectations
Fragile State - correct answer ✔A country that suffers from institutional
weaknesses serious enough to threaten the stability of the central
government.
Vulnerable State - correct answer ✔Those states unable or unwilling to
adequately assure the provision of security and basic services to significant
portions of their populations and where the legitimacy of the government is in
question.
Crisis - correct answer ✔Those states where the central govt does not exert
effective control over its own territory or is unable or unwilling to assure the
provision of vital services to significant parts of its territory, where legitimacy of
the govt is weak or nonexistent, and violent conflict is a reality or a great risk.
3 Categories of Stabilization Activities - correct answer ✔1. Initial Response
2. Transformation
3. Fostering Sustainability
Initial Response - correct answer ✔Generally reflects tasks executed to
stabilize an operational environment in a crisis state.
Transformation - correct answer ✔Represents the broad range of post-
conflict reconstruction, stabilization, and capacity
building tasks. Transformation is essentially a consolidation of gains.
Fostering Sustainability - correct answer ✔Encompasses long-term efforts
that capitalize on capacity-building and reconstruction activities to establish
stable conditions so forces can transition control to legitimate civil authorities.