Structure

Organizational Chart

October 2009

Leadership

Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization
Ambassador John E. Herbst

Principal Deputy Coordinator (Acting)
Jonathan Benton

Deputy Coordinator
Robert Jenkins

Divisions

Civilian Response Operations

Civilian Response Operations is responsible for the strategy development, training, equipping, deployment, and coordination of the Civilian Response Corps (CRC).

Conflict Prevention

Under NSPD-44, the role of S/CRS, and more specifically Conflict Prevention (CP), is to coordinate interagency processes to identify states at risk of instability, lead interagency planning to prevent or mitigate conflict, develop detailed contingency plans for integrated U.S. Government reconstruction and stabilization efforts, and to coordinate preventative strategies with foreign countries, international and regional organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and private sector entities.

Planning

The Planning Office leads the planning for and the conduct of highly complex and multi-faceted US Government reconstruction and stabilization operations in specific countries at risk of, in, or emerging from conflict.

Resource Management

The Office of Resource Management is responsible for budget policy and planning, financial coordination, as well as S/CRS personnel, operating funds and management coordination.

Strategic Communications

The Office of Strategic Communications (SC) is responsible for public affairs and public diplomacy, legislative affairs, diplomatic engagement, and outreach to the academic and NGO communities on behalf of S/CRS.

The S/CRS Interagency Team

S/CRS is a State Department office, but it is interagency in both character and function. We are staffed by representatives from agencies throughout the U.S. Government, allowing us to build upon and draw on existing skills and expertise, and more easily reach back to interagency partners.

Currently, S/CRS staff come from the State Department, USAID, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, Joint Forces Command, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Treasury Department.

S/CRS has been charged with leading the coordination of USG stabilization and reconstruction efforts. This requires pulling together the extensive resources available throughout the interagency community. You can find out more about our U.S. Government partners and their programs by visiting their websites. The list below is by no means all-inclusive, but it should point you in the right direction.

Department of Defense

• Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
• Joint Forces Command (JFCOM)
• Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC)
• Army Corps of Engineers
• Army War College Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute
• National Defense University

Department of Justice

• International Criminal Investigative Training Program (ICITAP)

Department of State

• International Narcotics and Law Enforcement's Civilian Police Programs
• Office of the Director General, Diplomatic Readiness Initiative
• Office of Population, Refugees, and Migration
• Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
• Humanitarian Information Unit
• Foreign Service Institute

Department of Treasury

Central Intelligence Agency

USAID

• Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM)
• Office of Democracy and Governance
• Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
• Office of Transition Initiatives