| ADF | Arab Defence Force |
| AMIB | AU Mission in Burundi |
| AMIS | AU Mission in Sudan |
| AMISOM | AU Mission in Somalia |
| ANC | African National Council |
| ASEAN | Association of South-East Asian States |
| AU | African Union |
| AUPSC | AU Peace and Security Council |
| BONUCA | UN peace-building office in the Central African Republic |
| BYIL | British Year Book of International Law |
| CAR | Central African Republic |
| CARICOM | Caribbean Community |
| CEMAC | Communauté Économique et Monétaire de I’Afrique |
| CEN-SAD | Community of Sahel-Saharan States |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
| CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| CSCE | Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| CSTO | Collective Security Treaty Organization |
| DPKO | Department of Peacekeeping Operations |
| DPRK | Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
| DRC | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| ECCAS | Economic Community of Central African States |
| ECOMIL | ECOWAS Mission in Liberia |
| ECOMOG | Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group |
| ECOWAS | Economic Commnity of West African States |
| FMLN | Frente Farabundo Marti para la LiberaciÓn Nacional |
| FNLA | Frente Nacional de Libertaçã de Angola |
| FOMUC | Force multinationale en Centrafrique |
| FRY | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| ICJ | International Court of Justice |
| ICTY | International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |
| IEMF | Interim Emergency Multinational Force |
| IGAD | Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development |
| ILC | International Law Commission |
| ILM | International Legal Materials |
| IPTF | United National International Police Task Force |
| ISAF | International Security Assistance Force |
| MIF | Multinational Interim Force |
| MINUCI | United National Mission in Côte d’Ivoire |
| MINURCAT | United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic |
| MINUSTAH | UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti |
| MISAB | Inter-African Force in the Central African Republic |
| MLC | Movement for the Liberation of Congo |
| MNF | Multinational Force |
| MONUA | United Nations Observer Mission in Angola |
| MONUC | United Nations Observer Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| MPLA | Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola |
| NAM | Non-Aligned Movement |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NPFL | National Patriotic Front of Liberia |
| NPT | Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons |
| OAS | Organization of American States |
| OAU | Organization of African Unity |
| OECS | Organization of East Caribbean States |
| ONUB | UN Operation in Burundi |
| ONUC | United Nations Operation in the Congo |
| ONUCA | United Nations Operation Observer Group in Central America |
| ONUSAL | United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador |
| OSCE | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| PKK | Kurdish Workers Party |
| PLO | Palestine Liberation Organization |
| RENAMO | Resistencia Nacional Moçambicana |
| RPF | Rwanda Patriotic Front |
| RUF | Revolutionary United Front |
| SADC | Southern African Development Community (formerly SADDC) |
| SOFAs | Status of Forces Agreements |
| SWAPO | South West Africa People’s Organization |
| TCCs | Troop Contributing Countries |
| TFG | Transitional Federal Government |
| TSZ | Temporary Security Zone |
| UAR | United Arab Republic |
| UIC | Union of Islamic Courts |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNAMET | United Nations Mission in East Timor |
| UNAMI | United National Assistance Mission |
| UNAMIC | United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia |
| UNAMID | AU/UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur |
| UNAMIR | United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda |
| UNAMSIL | United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone |
| UNAVEM | United Nations Angola Verification Mission |
| UNCRO | United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia |
| UNEF | United Nations Emergency Force |
| UNFICYP | United Nations Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus |
| UNGOMAP | United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan |
| UNIFIL | United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon |
| UNITA | União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola |
| UNITAF | Unified Task Force |
| UNMEE | United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea |
| UNMIBH | United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| UNMIH | United Nations Mission in Haiti |
| UNMIK | United Nations Missioin in Kosovo |
| UNMIL | United Nations Mission in Liberia |
| UNMISET | United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor |
| UNMOGIP | United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan |
| UNMOP | United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka |
| UNMOT | United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikstan |
| UNMOVIC | United Nations Monitoring, Verification andInspection Commission |
| UNOCI | UN Operation in CÔte d’Ivoire |
| UNOMIG | United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia |
| UNOMIL | United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia |
| UNOMOZ | United Nations Operation in Mozambique |
| UNOMSIL | United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone |
| UNOMUR | United Nations Observer Mission Uganda/Rwanda |
| UNOSOM I & II | United Nations Operation in Somalia |
| UNPREDEP | United Nations Preventive Deployment Force |
| UNPROFOR | United Nations Protection Force |
| UNSCOM | United Nations Special Commission |
| UNTAC | United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia |
| UNTAES | United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slovenia |
| UNTAET | United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor |
| UNTAG | United Nations Transition Assistance Group |
| UNTS | UN Treaty Series |
| UNYB | UN Year Book |
| WEU | Western European Union |
| WMD | Weapons of mass destruction |