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DTIC ADA488249: Measuring Progress in Conflict Environments (MPICE) - A Metrics Framework for Assessing Conflict Transformation and Stabilization. Version 1.0

There has been a long standing need for Measures of Effectiveness, as they are often called in the private sector, focused on diplomatic, military and development efforts in places prone to conflict. Traditionally, U.S. Government agencies have tended to measure outputs, such as the number of schools built, miles of roads paved, or numbers of insurgents killed. Outputs, however, measure what we do and not what we achieve. Outcomes, or effects as they are known in the military's glossaries, indicate the success or failure of project or mission efforts, since they seek to measure the attainment of conditions that engender stability and self-sustaining peace. The US government (particularly Department of Defense, US Institute of Peace, US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Department of State) has been actively working with a broad array of partners (multinational, NGOs and academia) to develop new capabilities for stability operations. The Measuring Progress in Conflict Environments (MPICE 'pronounced' M-Peace ) project has developed an overarching framework of indicators that measure outcomes over time and across five sectors (Governance, Economics, Security, Rule of L

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