Cover13; -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Two Themes -- Workshop and Report Organization -- 2 The Situation in Afghanistan -- The Importance of Cultural Awareness -- Ways in Which the Military Takes Sociocultural Factors into Account -- Dealing with Information -- Lessons -- 3 The Conflict Environment -- Mapping the Dark Web -- Identifying Core Offenders -- Is It Time to Establish a Discipline of Sociocultural Intelligence? -- 4 Cooperative Relationships -- Models of Cooperative Behavior -- Four Forms of Social Relationships -- Cultural Discourses -- 5 Nation Building -- Cross-Cultural Bridges -- Culture and Attention -- 6 Persuasion -- Direct and Indirect Confrontation -- The Power of Stories -- Supportive Communication -- 7 Modeling Sociocultural Behavior -- Interpreting the Outputs of Modeling -- How to Make Sense of Data -- Meaning in Models -- The Limits of Modeling -- 8 Implications -- Workshop Themes -- Lessons Learned -- References -- Appendixes -- A Workshop Agenda and Participants -- B Abstracts of Background Papers
