The Civil Affairs Association has extended the deadline for submission of papers for the 2024-25 Civil Affairs Issue Papers (Vol. 11) on "Teaming Civil Affairs: Lessons from the Field" from Friday, 13 September to Friday, 20 September, in order to give authors more time to finish their papers.
Authors selected for publication will present their papers at the end of the Civil Affairs Symposium on Saturday, 16 November in Philadelphia, PA. Best presented paper wins $1,000! Second place wins $500; and third place wins $250.
The questions this year's papers can look to answer include: What can we learn from experience so far in multicomponent [and multiservice] CA teaming? How can deliberate campaigning of multicomponent and Joint, interagency and multinational (JIM) level teaming in CA operations improve CA institutional integration (e.g., in training, education, and leader development) and with other information forces such as PSYOP? How can CA teaming experience to date in strategic competition apply to LSCO, post-conflict consolidation, and irregular warfare as well as meet ongoing stabilization, governance, and civilian harm mitigation, reduction, and resilience challenges? How can multi-partner, JIM-level CA teaming help address interagency priorities such as: climate change; Women, Peace, and Security; the Global Fragility Act; and conflict prevention? What DOTMLPF-P changes should occur within and beyond current capacities? How should they be prioritized and implemented?
To learn more about the Issue Papers, download the Call for Papers and Civil Affairs Issue Papers Guidelines.