ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book begins with an empirical observation: in interventions, the military and civilian actors are expected to develop coherence and coordination while in the field. It discusses how governments and international organizations have attempted to operationalize coherence into a comprehensive approach. The book explains some of the obstacles that tend to impede the prospects of coherence: output vs impact; conflicting mandates and values; and internal/external imbalance. It looks at the intervening actor which often is the most dominant, powerful and intrusive: the military. The book focuses on the most heated type of civil–military conflict in interventions: between military and humanitarian actors. It draws on developing an appropriate theoretical framework for analysing coherence in interventions. The book provides three groups of intervening actors: the military, humanitarians and the state-builders, and analysed the identities within these groups.
