3D Security Initiative

1. 3D worked with the Conflict Prevention and Resolution Forum to hold a year-long series of forums on the concept of 3D - development, diplomacy and defense - as a framework for US foreign policy. This report provides an overview of the different and sometimes competing ways these concepts are used: A 3D Approach to Foreign Policy

2. QDDR: Click here to read "Highlights of the Quadrennial Development and Diplomacy Review (QDDR)" released by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on December 15 as she announces that "We will make conflict prevention and response a core mission of State and USAID."
 
David Cortright, Policy Director of the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, summarizes the key points relevant to peacebuilding and human security.  
 

3. Foreign Assistance Reform: The 3D Security Initiative and the Alliance for Peacebuilding developed a submission to the Congressional committee proposing to rewrite the US Foreign Assistance Act and the State Department team writing the Quadrennial Development and Diplomacy Review (QDDR).  

4. Defining Peacebuilding and US Policy: Click here to read Peacebuilding in US Foreign Assistance which outlines a conceptual foundation, language and recommendations to assist US policymakers in articulating the complicated nexus of development, conflict, security, and peacebuilding.

5. The 3D Security Initiative provides policy analysis and recommendations related to peacebuilding in general and civil society peacebuilding efforts in specific.  Click on the links below to read more.

Civil Society and the US Government in Conflict-Affected Regions: Building Better Relations for Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding in US Foreign Assistance

3D Congressional Testimony on Conflict Prevention