This report is the product of the United States Institute of Peace’s Afghanistan Experience Project. It is based on extensive interviews conducted with American and foreign officials, soldiers, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations that worked directly with Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan. It also reflects interviews conducted with a broad range of contacts during the author’s visit to Afghanistan in June 2005. The report discusses lessons identified by those wh more...

An article by Robert Borders (US Army) from the Journal of development and Social Transformation argues that the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) concept currently employed in Afghanistan is a proven, flexible model for post-conflict reconstruction that the United States and its allies have endorsed and remain committed to. These specialized civil-military (CM) units provide a unique blend of development and security that is the result of an evolutionary process and refinement that continues more...