Must Reads
United Nations
UN Charta
http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/index.shtml
Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations ("Brahimi Report")
http://www.un.org/peace/reports/peace_operations/
United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Principles and Guidelines ("Capstone Doctrine")
http://pbpu.unlb.org/pbps/Library/Capstone_Doctrine_ENG.pdf
A New Partnership Agenda: Charting a New Horizon for UN Peacekeeping
http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/documents/newhorizon.pdf
UN Handbook United Nations Multidimensional Peacekeeping Operations
http://pbpu.unlb.org/PBPS/Library/Handbook%20on%20UN%20PKOs.pdf
Report of the Secretary-General on Peacebuilding in the Immediate Aftermath of Conflict
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,45a5199f2,465575a62,4a4c6c3b2,0.html
European Union
European Security and Defence Policy: The Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cmsUpload/BackgroundJPO2008-Civilian_aspects_compressed.pdf
European Security Strategy 2003: A Secure Europe in a Better World
www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cmsUpload/78367.pdf
ESDP: The First 10 Years (1999-2009)
http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/ESDP_10-web.pdf
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Istanbul Summit Declaration 1999 (Charter for European Security)
http://www.osce.org/mc/39569
OSCE- Handbook (2007)
http://www.osce.org/secretariat/22624
OSCE Election Observation Handbook (2010)
http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/68439
OSCE Handbook for Long-term Election Observers
http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/24678
OSCE Election Observation - A Decade of Monitoring Elections: The People and the Practice
http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/17165
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States & Situations
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/28/5/43463433.pdf
Concepts and Dilemmas of State Building in Fragile Situations: From Fragility to Resilience
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/59/51/41100930.pdf
Whole of Government Approaches to Fragile States
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/15/24/37826256.pdf
AU and African Regional Organisations/Mechanisms
The Constitutive Act (AU)
http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/AboutAU/Constitutive_Act_en.htm
African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (AU)
http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/Documents/Treaties/text/Charter%20on%20Democracy.pdf
ECOWAS Treaty
http://www.comm.ecowas.int/sec/index.php?id=treaty?=en
ECOWAS Protocol Relating to the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management, Resolution, Peace-keeping and Security
http://www.comm.ecowas.int/sec/index.php?id=ap101299?=en
ECOWAS Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance, Supplementary to the Protocol Relating to the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management, Resolution, Peacekeeping and Security (Protocol A/SP1/12/01)
http://www.comm.ecowas.int/sec/en/protocoles/Protocol%20on%20good-governance-and-democracy-rev-5EN.pdf
Others
The Responsibility to Protect. Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.
http://responsibilitytoprotect.org/ICISS%20Report.pdf