Ruination to Revitalization: Rebuilding a War-Torn City in Baghdad
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RUINATION TO REVITALIZATION: REBUILDING A WAR-TORN CITY IN BAGHDAD
Christopher L. AllenGeorgia TechCity and Regional PlanningGraduate Student
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CONTENTS• Baghdad: Historical Context• Perspective from Saydiyah• Lines of Effort
• Security• Economics• Essential Services• Governance
• Obstacles and Constraints• Lasting Effects• Lessons Learned
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BAGHDAD: MODERN CONTEXT•OIF Post-Surge, 2007.
•U.S. COIN Strategy shift
•2LT Allen deployment
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PERSPECTIVE FROM SAYDIYAH• Pop: ~40,000• Majority Ba’athist
community• 2007: sectarian violence• Jan 2008: abandonment• Rashid District• Internally Displaced
Persons (IDPs), squatters
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LINES OF EFFORT
SECURITY
ECONOMICS
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
GOVERNANCE
STAB
ILITY
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SECURITY
• Weapons trafficking, insurgents
• T-Wall Solution• Joint U.S./Iraqi Army patrols
• Iraqi National Police Checkpoints within walls
• Sons & Daughters of Iraq: local concerned citizens
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ECONOMICS•Micro-Grants•Fruit and Fish Market project
•Rafidain Bank Reopening
•Job Creation
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ESSENTIAL SERVICES•Education•Clinic•Roads•Sewers•Trash management
•Power generation
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GOVERNANCE•Reconciliation•Support Council: “unelected” body, local sheiks
•Balance of power•Primary function: Resettlement
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OBSTACLES AND CONSTRAINTS• Culture gap• Language barrier• Enemy threat• Weather & Climate• Training• Collective Benefit• Adjudicating legitimacy: Iraqi-led
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LASTING EFFECTS• Saydiyah set the standard• January 2010: 7,200 families reintegrated
• Gradual drawdown, return to normalcy• Over $1 Million dollars invested• Sporadic sectarian & insurgency violence
• 31 December 2011: U.S. Withdrawal out of Iraq
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LESSONS LEARNED• Citizen input CRUCIAL• No perfect 100% solution• Quality of life significantly improved
• No “one best way”• All military objectives accomplished despite obstacles
• Outside agency support• Transition to Iraqi control• Deliberate analysis