"The general belief across each group is that the relief and reconstruction programme should have accomplished more, that too much was wasted, and that the lessons derived from the Iraq reconstruction experience should drive improvements to the US approach to stabilisation and reconstruction operations, " Mr Bowen reported.

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During its first meeting, the Committee will decide on a priority programme to enable the reconstruction of buildings, natural sites and damaged historic urban centres, as well as the restoration of museums, archives and libraries.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

Using dramatic reconstruction and archive footage, the programme depicts the excitement and fear of picket-line confrontation.

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Mark Malloch Brown, the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, argues that Iraq may prove the opposite of other such reconstruction efforts.

ECONOMIST: Post-war Iraq