Fiscal Year	2009
Division	School of International Graduate Studies
Department	National Security Affairs
Investigator(s)	Johnson, Thomas H.
Sponsor	Office of the Secretary of Defense (DoD)
Summary	The scope of the project is to develop and publish research of socio-cultural human terrain information on Pakistan, particularly the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) via an open-source web portal. Some of the objectives of this project are: to provide timely and current ethnographic, socio-cultural and geospatial information to deployed units, analysis teams, and other consumers via an open-source platform: to expose and educate deploying and deployed units with necessary human terrain information prior to and during COIN operations; to support military units, government and nongovernment organizations involved with development activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan with requested information on the tribal, ethnic, and political context; to act as a reach back on security, political, economic, and other human terrain issues in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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