TRUST Website Submission Guidelines

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1. About TRUST
1.2. Mission & Goals
2. Content Guidelines
2.1. Contributors
2.2. Suggested Topics
2.3. Prohibited Content
3. Content Preparation
3.1. General
3.2. Copyright
3.3. Text Submissions
3.3.1. Format
3.3.2. Length
3.3.3. Style Manual
3.4. Photos & Graphics
3.4.1. Photographs
3.4.2. Graphics
3.4.3. Photo Essays
3.5. Audio Recordings
3.6. Video Recordings
3.7. Other Multimedia
4. Other Issues
4.1. When to Submit
4.2. Where to Submit/Query
4.3. Response Time

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1.1. About TRUST

The Partnership for Peace Trust Fund was established in September 2000 to assist NATO partner countries in the safe destruction of stockpiled anti-personnel mines and other munitions. To date, NATO member countries and 27 partner countries have earmarked close to 4.2 million USD to destroy over 2 million mines and other munitions in partner countries.

NATO's PfP Program and its Trust Fund promote security, encourage better integration of partners into the West and provide the means for the alliance and its partner countries to promote security by professionalizing defence capabilities, destroying stockpiles of anti-personnel mines, munitions, small arms and light weapons.

In 2002, The Fund for Peace (FfP) became the first non-governmental organization (NGO) to participate in a Partnership for Peace (PfP) Trust Fund project feasibility study in Ukraine, studying the question of how to destroy 1.5 million small arms and 133,000 tons of munitions. The FfP developed a pilot communications strategy to reinforce the value of demilitarization to countries housing surplus landmines and small arms and munitions, as well as potential donor countries. As part of the NATO Ad Hoc Expert Team, FfP visited numerous weapons and munitions sites in Ukraine and partnered with a Ukrainian NGO, The Razumkov Centre.

In collaboration with local partner institutions, The Fund for Peace will build support specifically in the expert communities in south-eastern Europe. In 2004, NATO invited the FfP to replicate this communications model strategy in Albania and Serbia.

The Ukrainian strategy calls for targeted public-awareness campaigns based in the participating country and at NATO, establishment of a PfP Trust Fund website at NATO and as well as at partner NGO's participating in the campaign throughout the region. NGO partners will host seminars, workshops and be trained in a new NATO style manual to increase their submissions of more frequent news, human interest stories and opinions from local, national and international organizations and individuals in the demilitarization process.

The stated goals of the communications strategy are to: