ABSTRACT
This final chapter is devoted to signaling trends and dilemmas and presenting lines for future research based on the insights, experiences, know-how and knowledge contributed by the various authors in this book. Themes present trends and inherent dilemmas as well as opportunities for research. The first theme we labelled structure follows strategy. From a background of external orientation, this theme relates the strategic purposes of humanitarian assistance and reconstruction to the structures and forms of civil-military interfaces that are necessary to achieve these purposes. Second, within the theme we name travelling light we address the importance of a demand-driven response in relation to the often heavy footprint of the international Western community on a mission. Subsequently, within the theme of training and education, the development of comprehensive policies and integrated approaches creates the need for inter-organizational training and education.
