The policy department supports the organization’s core activities by collecting, generating and sharing information and ideas about the UN and foreign-policy choices facing the member governments, especially the United States. The policy department also leverages UNA’s resources to convey meetings to provide a nonpartisan forum for policy makers and opinion leaders to generate new ideas that promote and reinforce cooperation among governments, civil society and businesses.

In addition, the policy department organizes the Annual Summer Study Program in partnership with the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations; coordinates UNA’s multifaceted Leo Nevas Program on Human Rights; and manages a nuclear non-proliferation Initiative.

Leo Nevas Program on Human Rights
	The Leo Nevas Program on Human Rights is a UNA initiative that will engage all the organizations’s activities toward mobilizing existing and new resources to help the UN take a more effective role in human rights as well get the US involved more in the UN’s efforts. Learn more about the Human Rights Program.
John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations
	In 1997, UNA and Seton Hall University formed a partnership to establish the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., to advance the study of contemporary global issues. Find out more about the Whitehead School.
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Initiative
	The policy department also carries on additional diplomatic initiatives on security matters with research institutes in the Middle East, offering innovative means of cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation in the region. Find out more about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Initiative.