Key Policy Documents
United Nations Documents
Websites
- Documentation Center
- Peace and Security
- Millennium Development Goals
- Action to Counter Terrorism
- Comprehensive Report on UN Peacekeeping (commonly known as the Brahimi Report)
- Report of the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change
- In Larger Freedom Report of Secretary General
Documents
- 2009 UN C-34 Report
- Peacekeeping - Meeting New Challenges
- Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the Protection of Civilians In Armed Conflict
- Implementation of the Recommendations of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations
- A Comprehensive Strategy To Eliminate Future Sexual Exploitation and Abuse In United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
- Human Trafficking and United Nations Peacekeeping
- Evolving Models of Peacekeeping: Policy Implications & Responses
- Peacekeeping Operations: Global Patterns of Intervention and Success, 1948 - 2000
- Limits and Opportunities of UN-EU Relations In Peace Operations: Implications For DPKO
- DPKO Civil-Military Coordination Policy
- No Exit Without Strategy: Security Council Decision-Making and the Closure Or Transition of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
United States Documents
Current:
- National Security Presidential Directive #1
- DODD 3000.05 Military Support for Stability, Security, and Reconstruction (SSTR)
- National Security Policy Directive #44
- Executive Order: National Security Professional Development
- State of the Union Address - 2007
- President Obama's Inaugural Address 2009
- President George W. Bush's Inaugural Address - 2001
- President George W. Bush's Inaugural Address - 2005
- Report to Congress on the Integration of IA Caps into DOD Planning
- The Global Peace Operations Initiative: Background and Issues for Congress (2007)
- The State Department at Work in the 21st Century
- US Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
- Stabilization and Reconstruction: Actions Needed to Improve Government-wide Planning and Capabilities for Future Operations
- Peacekeeping: Observations on Costs, Strengths and Limitations of U.S. and UN Operations
- Stabilization and Reconstruction: Actions Are Needed to Develop a Planning and Coordination Framework and Establish the Civilian Reserve Corps
Historical:
- Presidential Decision Directive #25
- Presidential Decision Directive #56
- Presidential Decision Directive #68
- Presidential Decision Directive #71
Other Documents and Reports
- Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction
- G8 Action Plan: Expanding Global Capability For Peace Support Operations
- Convention (IV) Relative To The Protection Of Civilian Persons In Time Of War. Geneva, 1949
- The Geneva Conventions: Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 1977
- The Geneva Conventions: Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), 1977.
- Convention And Protocol - Relating To The Status Of Refugees
- The Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross And Red Crescent
- The Humanitarian Charter