ABSTRACT
During stabilization and reconstruction missions, overlapping tasks and scarce resources in mission areas cause interdependency between international organizations (IOs), non governmental organizations (NGOs), donor organizations and the military. This chapter aims to explain the performance of civil-military cooperation in stabilization and reconstruction missions. To this end a performance assessment framework is developed. This framework is subsequently applied to civil-military cooperation between the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and a broad variety of civilian actors in Kabul, the Afghan capital. After an introduction to the case study, the performance on each of the criteria is analyzed in detail. The final section provides conclusions and recommendations. Moreover, the final report of the case study was reviewed by one of the military respondents and their feedback is incorporated in this chapter. Although many military and civilian actors stressed the importance of a performance evaluation it was rarely done. Through the use of a performance assessment framework several conclusions are drawn.
