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List of Abbreviations
| ABM | Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty |
| AF | Arria Formula |
| AOR | area of responsibility |
| ASG | assistant secretaries-general |
| BRUSA |
Agreement between the British and United States
government for intelligence cooperation |
| C3 | command, control, and communications |
| CSD | controlled source development |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
| COMINT | communications intelligence |
| DESA | Department of Economic and Social Affairs |
| DHA | Department of Humanitarian Affairs |
| DPA | Department of Political Affairs |
| DPI | Department of Public Information |
| DPKO | Department of Peacekeeping Operations |
| DPPO | Development and Policy Planning Office |
| ECOSOC | Economic and Social Council |
| ECPS | Executive Committee on Peace and Security |
| EISAS |
Executive Committee on Peace and Security
Information and Strategic Analysis Secretariat |
| EPAU | Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit |
| ERC | emergency relief coordinator |
| EU | European Union |
| EWCP | Early Warning and Contingency Planning Unit |
| EWI | early warning indicator |
| FIS | field information support |
| FRY | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| GA | General Assembly |
| GIS | geographic information system |
| HEWS | Humanitarian Early Warning System |
| HIC | humanitarian information capability |
| HUMINT | human intelligence |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IASC | Inter-Agency Standing Committee |
| ICRC | International Committee of the Red Cross/Crescent |
| IEA | International Energy Agency |
| IED | Information/Education Division |
| IFOR | Implementation Force |
| IGOs | intergovernmental organisations |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| INTSUM | intelligence summary |
| IPA | International Peace Academy |
| IPB | intelligence preparation for battlefield |
| IR | international relations |
| ISC |
Parliamentary Oversight of the British Intelligence
and Security Committee |
| ISS | integrated support service |
| JLO | Joint Logistics Operation |
| JNA | Yugoslav People's Army |
| KGB |
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti
(or Committee for State Security) |
| MCC | Movement Control Centre |
| MI5 | British Secret Intelligence Division Five |
| MI6 | British Secret Intelligence (Military) Division Six |
| MIB | Military Intelligence Branch |
| MORE | multioptical review equipment |
| MOU | memorandum of understanding |
| MPS | Military Planning Service |
| NGOs | nongovernmental organisations |
| NIE | National Intelligence Estimate |
| NSA | National Security Agency |
| OB | order of battle |
| OCHA | Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |
| OFOESA |
Office for Field Operations and External Support
Activities |
| OIO | UN's Office of Internal Oversight |
| OMV |
Disarmament and Ongoing Monitoring and
Verification |
| ONUC | United Nations Operations in the Congo |
| ORCI | Office for Research and the Collection of Information |
| OSA | Official Secrets Act |
| PATD |
Department of Political Affairs, Trusteeship,
and Decolonisation |
| PCRC | Prevention, Control, and Resolution of Conflicts |
| PD | prisoner's dilemma |
| PPU | Policy Planning Unit |
| PSCA | Department of Political and Security Council Affairs |
| RMS | remote monitoring systems |
| RSK |
Serbian Republic of Krajina (Republika Srpska
Krajina) |
| RUSI | Royal United Services Institute |
| SC | Security Council |
| SFOR | Stabilization Force |
| SG | secretary-general |
| SIGINT | signal intelligence |
| SIPRI | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
| SIRC | Canadian Security Intelligence Review Committee |
| SITCEN | Situation Centre |
| SPU | Strategic Planning Unit |
| TA | transitional administrator |
| UKUSA |
United Kingdom-United States of America Security
Agreement |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNA-USA | United Nations Association (USA) |
| UNCRO | United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation |
| UNEF | United Nations Emergency Force |
| UNHCR | United Nations High Commission for Refugees |
| UNHQ | United Nations Headquarters |
| UNICEF | United Nations Children's Fund |
| UNIDIR | United Nations Institute of Disarmament Research |
| UNMIBH | United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| UNMOP | United Nations Observer Mission Prevlaka |
| UNMOVIC |
United Nations Monitoring, Verification,
and Inspection Commission |
| UNOSOM | United Nations Operation in Somalia |
| UNPF | United Nations Peace Force |
| UNPREDEP | United Nations Preventive Deployment |
| UNPROFOR | United Nations Protection Force |
| UNSCOM | United Nations Special Commission |
| UNTAC | United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia |
| UNTAES |
United Nations Transitional Administration
for Eastern Slavonia |
| USG | under-secretary-general |
| WFP | World Food Programme |
| WMD | weapons of mass destruction |