The rehabilitation of essential services infrastructure following hostilities, whether during a conflict or post-conflict, is a complex undertaking. This is made more complicated in protracted conflicts due to the continuing cycle of damage and expedient repair amid changing demands. The rehabilitation paradigm that was developed for the successful post-World War II rehabilitation of Germany and Japan has been less successful since. There are a myriad of conflicting interests that impede its application, yet the issue consistently comes down to a lack of systems-level understanding of the current situation on the ground and a lack of alignment between what is delivered and the actual local need. This article proposes a novel conceptual framework to address this, affording a greater “system of systems” understanding of the local essential services and how they can be restored to reflect the changed needs of the local population that has itself been changed by the conflict. The recommendations draw on heuristic practice and commercially available tools to provide a practicable approach to restoring infrastructure function in order to enable essential services that are resilient to temporary returns to violence and support the overall rehabilitation of the affected community.

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在旷日持久的冲突期间和之后为有弹性的基本服务重建基础设施：一个概念框架

无论是在冲突期间还是冲突后，在敌对行动之后恢复基本服务基础设施都是一项复杂的工作。由于在不断变化的需求中不断循环损坏和紧急修复，这在旷日持久的冲突中变得更加复杂。为二战后德国和日本的成功康复而开发的康复范式自那以后就不太成功了。有无数利益冲突阻碍了其应用，但问题始终归结为对当地当前情况缺乏系统级的了解，以及交付的内容与当地的实际需求之间缺乏一致性。本文提出了一个新的概念框架来解决这个问题，提供对当地基本服务以及如何恢复这些服务以反映因冲突而改变的当地人口的变化需求的更大“系统系统”的理解。这些建议借鉴了启发式实践和商业上可用的工具，以提供一种切实可行的方法来恢复基础设施功能，以提供能够抵御暴力暂时回归的基本服务，并支持受影响社区的整体康复。