text: Chapter 10
  GENERATIONAL ENGAGEMENT
  10-7. Generational engagement is a method that can be conducted in conjunction with other approaches
  that seeks to get the host nation to educate and empower the population to participate in legal methods of
  political discourse and dissent. This can be done in both high threat situations and situations where an
  insurgency is at its infancy and combat is less intense. It is best that the host nation undertake this method
  as soon as possible to affect the next generation. Generational engagement focuses on the population.
  Generational engagement focuses on building new constituents in the host-nation population to counter
  insurgent actions. Generational engagement is a method of political mobilization of the people. The
  purpose of the method is to get population groups to side with the host nation.
  10-8. Figure 10-1 provides a general framework for generational engagement. First, counterinsurgents
  identify the population that they wish to engage. This relevant population may politically engage and this
  will encourage the host nation to redress any grievances. This may lead to a reduction of violence. This is
  all built on a foundation of education, empowerment, and participation. (See figure 10-1.)
  Figure 10-1. Generational engagement
  10-9. Five principles are fundamental to generational engagement:
  * Groups with whom counterinsurgents partner (such as nongovernmental organizations [NGOs])
  must be seen as indigenous, not as foreign constructs.
  * Independence of funding and resources are important. Support groups can lose credibility the
  more they are perceived as solely reliant on foreign funding, possibly due to a shift in priorities
  by a sole and influential benefactor. Organizations and their partners should identify alternative
  sources of support, including local sponsors, funding from the relevant ministries, or collecting
  dues from members.
  * In selecting partners, counterinsurgents should not limit themselves to the vocal intellectual elite.
  If the insurgency is based on the root causes of a rural population, intellectual elites might not
  have legitimacy among the rural poor. Therefore, counterinsurgents should balance support
  between the central leadership and local branches in the provinces or townships (where youth
  engagement is usually most important).