The Partnership for Effective Peacekeeping

The PEP is a non-partisan policy working group that brings together the humanitarian, human rights, peace and security, think tank, and academic communities in support of greater peacebuilding capacity.

The PEP promotes public policy solutions to improve national and international peacekeeping and peacebuilding infrastructure, and works to encourage the political will to support such policies by: providing an open forum for discussion of peacekeeping and peacebuilding issues; facilitating efforts to develop and support ‘common ground’ policy ideas; engaging in educational efforts that facilitate greater understanding of peacekeeping and peacebuilding; and serving as an information resource for media and policymakers.

The PEP does not exclusively support any one particular solution for the capacity problems that prevent effective peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations. Rather, the PEP facilitates the exploration and advancement of all potential pragmatic solutions in a candid and ‘outside the box’ atmosphere.

PEP Mission Statement (Adobe Acrobat PDF)

The PEP in Action

The PEP:

  • Convenes peacekeeping forums to discuss policy issues relating to international peace operations. The Forums provide a venue for stakeholders to discuss peace operations in a candid and off-the-record environment, building bridges and working together to find solutions to the complex policy issues associated with international peace operations.
  • Sponsors public briefings and roundtable discussions on peace operations policy topics to educate policymakers, the NGO community, and the media on important public policy issues.
  • Facilitates policy advocacy by coordinating and assisting ad-hoc working groups of organizations focused on particular policy issues.
  • Delivers peace operations policy information to policymakers, the public, the media, and other constituencies through electronic outreach, including this website and various email lists.

Sponsor Organizations

  • Citizens for Global Solutions (website) Don Kraus, Executive Vice-President, PEP Co-Chair
  • Refugees International (website) Kenneth H. Bacon, President and CEO, PEP Co-Chair

PEP Participant Organizations

(partial list, not a membership list)

Participants in the PEP are not members of an association or a coalition, and are not required to meet official membership criteria. However, participants are people and/or organizations who support more effective peacekeeping and the corresponding need to improve national and global peace and stability operations infrastructure, and who work in some way to build that capacity, either through education or advocacy.

  • 3D Security Initiative (website)
  • BASIC - British American Security Information Council (website)
  • Better World Campaign (website)
  • CARE-USA (website)
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies, Post-Conflict Reconstruction (website)
  • Friends Committee on National Legislation (website)
  • Fund for Peace (website)
  • Henry L. Stimson Center, Future of Peace Operations (website)
  • International Rescue Committee (website)
  • International Peace Operations Association (website)
  • Oxfam America (website)
  • MercyCorps (website)
  • United Nations Foundation (website)
  • United States Institute of Peace (website)

Please note that organizations are listed here for identification purposes only. The listing on this website does not represent any official position of the organization, nor does any publication by the PEP (including this website) necessarily represent the views of any of the participants.

PEP Support

The Partnership for Effective Peacekeeping is supported by grants from:

Refugees International and Citizens for Global Solutions would like to express their gratitude for the support offered by these organizations in support of the mission of the PEP.