Funding from the Army War College Foundation helped USAWC launch a web journal with high-quality, concise, thought-provoking articles covering diverse topics of strategic relevance to the U.S. Army, DoD, and the Joint Force.  This journal relies on a “crowdsourcing” model for content development and encourages debate on complex matters and offers actionable recommendations that senior military and civilian leaders can use now or in the future.  Referred to as the “WAR ROOM,” this online journal is an Army War College platform that strives for substantive insights and analysis through podcasts, articles, interviews, and collaboration.  Continued Foundation funding can be used to help with web hosting, equipment and program innovation, application licenses, or other more traditional expenses like honoraria and travel.  

WAR ROOM’s content reflects the views of the authors and other contributors.  These views are not necessarily those of the United States Army, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.

Established in 1993 initially as the “Peacekeeping Institute”(PKI), with the challenge of developing a doctrinal base for peacekeeping operations, PKSOI has grown in both size and outreach.  Today, PKSOI is a regular partner at the UN in association with the UN DPKO and interacts across many UDG agencies (e.g.USAID), NGOs, and IOs with a peacekeeping/stability operations focus to address both the military and non-military aspects of peacekeeping.

PKSOI has continued to evolve as the US Army’s Center of Excellence for Peace and Stability Operations at the strategic and operational levels.  In 2013 PKSOI assumed its newly designated role as the Lead Agent for Joint Proponency for Peace and Stability Operations. For the foreseeable future, PKSOI will be the pre-eminent trainers of US forces preparing to conduct multinational peacekeeping operations.  PKSOI and its partners will also focus on collecting the key lessons learned over the last Decade of War, ensuring that key peacekeeping capabilities are adequately documented so that they can be rapidly re-generated to respond to US national requirements in the years to come.  In addition to PKSOI’s mission to enable the success of ongoing and future Peace and Stability Operations activities and missions, we are a specified institute within the U.S. Army War College (AWC). In our role as an institute of USAWC, PKSOI participates actively with the War College to provide the Army’s future senior leader with the necessary knowledge and skills needed to plan, conduct and assess P&SO missions and to integrate P&SO doctrine, concepts and policy into Army strategy and operational missions.  PKSOI achieves this by participating within the USAWC Core Curriculum and by providing multiple P&SO-related elective courses for the USAWC student body.

Enables the Commandant to fill capability gaps with faculty and staff such as Post-Doctoral Fellows with expertise to conduct research and contribute to the teaching mission in a number of different disciplines.  Faculty augmentation would also include Visiting Professors for various courses, electives, or other programs and Research Assistants for specific temporary needs.   As is the case for all programs that refer to hiring actions, the selection and hiring processes are managed exclusively by the UAAWC in accordance with government procedures.