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The roles of today's military, government and international organizations increasingly intersect across a range of scenarios from crisis prevention and humanitarian support to consequence management and state intervention. As traditional lines blur, new relationships must be forged to ensure operational success. Military and civilian agencies together with nongovernmental organizations must transcend the institutional barriers and stereotypes that prevent meaningful coordination of effort. Advancement of these partnerships requires honest interagency dialogue, coupling foreign and domestic military and civilian agencies. Interagency solutions will define the future of stability operations and reconstruction. The increase in multilateral intervention necessitates the reassessment of the complex relationships between organizations. As security concerns for nongovernmental organizations intensify and the military further engages in stability operations and reconstruction, these organizations will be forced to work together. The development of mutually supportive relationships will enhance the effectiveness of the agencies and organizations providing support, improving the quality of support to those in need. The U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) will join with the Eisenhower National Security Series, the State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS), Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and others to develop actionable international, interagency and service solutions in response to evolving stability operations and reconstruction. Throughout the year, the Eisenhower Series Stability Operations and Reconstruction Series will host events to advance conceptualization and policy for these missions. Through this series, a wide array of organizations will discuss and issue recommendations related to the challenges presented by today's complex security environment focusing on four stability and reconstruction themes. 1. Strategic Rationale of Stability Operations and Reconstruction This theme will explore the underlying strategic rationale for performing stability operations and reconstruction, providing an overarching concept to guide the remaining themes. 2. Integrated Planning Process and Structures Through policy roundtables involving key actors from across agencies and services, this area seeks a collaborative effort to develop a common lexicon, measures of effectiveness and metrics for success to generate actionable products, including the development of interagency doctrine. 3. Transitional Security Most experts rank security as the first priority of stability operations, failure to provide sufficient forces jeopardizes mission success and leads to ad-hoc solutions on the ground. This theme will evaluate U.S. and allied capacity to supply security forces, systematically exploring manifestations of criminal spoilers and other mission requirements. 4. Integrated Training and Education Given the necessity of an interagency, interservice response to stability operations and reconstruction, the United States should conduct integrated training and education for military and civilian leaders.