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  over several weeks, with conversations back and forth between Washington and interagency partners in the
  field.
  Roles and Responsibilities in the Interagency Conflict Assessment Framework
  4-25. Planners determine which partners serve on an ICAF team and in what capacities. The agency or
  individual responsible for managing the overall planning process proposes the tools and requests
  participation of partners. An established country team may use the ICAF to inform country assistance
  strategy development while a geographic combatant command uses the ICAF to bring an interagency
  perspective to theater security cooperation planning. In crisis response, the ICAF normally is part of the
  strategic planning led by a group focused on reconstruction and stabilization of the country in crisis. The
  ICAF may also be used among partners as part of collaborative planning.
  4-26. As a rule, participants using an ICAF include the broadest possible representation of partners with
  expertise or a stake in a given situation. An ideal interagency team represents diverse skill sets and brings
  together the collective knowledge and experience of various U.S. departments and agencies. Participants
  might include relevant regional bureaus, sector experts, intelligence analysts, and social science or conflict
  specialists. When interagency partners use the ICAF to support planning, the interagency field team
  includes members of the strategic planning team. The interagency field team expands as needed to include
  local stakeholders and international partner representatives.
  4-27. To ensure the most comprehensive analysis, members of the interagency team must provide all
  relevant information retained by each department or agency, including the results of past assessments and
  related analyses. Members of the interagency team must retain reachback capability with their agencies to
  obtain further information to fill critical information gaps identified through the ICAF process.
  4-28. The ICAF includes two major tasks: conflict diagnosis and transition into planning.
  STEPS OF CONFLICT DIAGNOSIS IN THE INTERAGENCY CONFLICT ASSESSMENT
  FRAMEWORK
  4-29. ICAF’s first major task is conflict diagnosis. Conflict diagnosis allows the interagency team to
  deliver a product that describes the context, core grievances and resiliencies, drivers of conflict and
  mitigating factors, and opportunities for increasing or decreasing conflict. Figure 4-2 illustrates the steps of
  conflict diagnosis:
  * Evaluate the context of the conflict.
  * Understand core grievances and social and institutional resilience.
  * Identify drivers of conflict and mitigating factors.
  * Describe opportunities for increasing or decreasing conflict.
  Figure 4-2. Conflict-diagnosis process of the interagency conflict-assessment framework