Partnership for Peace

Intergovernmental organization Partnership for Peace European NATO members (1994) Current NATO members which were formerly PfP members Partnership for Peace members States which aspire for PfP membership NATO HeadquartersBrussels, BelgiumTypeIntergovernmental organisationMembership18 participating states (incl. two suspended)Establishment• Founded 1994 Websitewww.nato.int 1994 Moldovan postage stamp dedicated to the Partnership for Peace The Partnership for Peace (PfP; French: Partenariat pour la paix) is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) program aimed at creating trust and cooperation between the member states of NATO and other states mostly in Europe, including post-Yugoslav and post-Soviet states; 18 states are members. The program contains six areas of cooperation, which aim to build relationships with partners through military-to-military cooperation on training, exercises, disaster planning and response, science and environmental issues, professionalization, policy planning, and relations with civilian government. During policy negotiations in the 1990s, a primary controversy regarding PfP was its ability to be interpreted as a program that is a stepping stone for