Establishing a White House Office for Special Peace Missions
Signed: June 30, 2025
Published: July 3, 2025
Document Number: 2025-12505
📋Summary
This executive order creates a new White House Office for Special Peace Missions to support efforts to help end conflicts abroad. It affects the White House and a new presidentially appointed Special Envoy for Peace Missions, and it directs coordination with the State Department, Defense Department, and other relevant federal agencies. The key change is establishing this office and assigning the Special Envoy to lead and coordinate peace-focused efforts across the executive branch. It does not take away existing legal authority from agencies, depends on available funding, and does not create enforceable legal rights for outside parties.
💼Business Impact
This order mainly affects defense contractors, security/logistics firms, NGOs and government-services contractors, and multinationals with exposure to conflict regions, because it signals a more coordinated White House push for conflict de-escalation that can shift sanctions, export controls, foreign assistance priorities, and procurement needs. While it creates no direct new legal obligations, businesses should expect increased due-diligence and compliance scrutiny around dealings in active-conflict jurisdictions (sanctions screening, end-use/end-user checks, anti-bribery controls) and potential opportunities in peace-support work (stabilization logistics, communications, demining, reconstruction planning, humanitarian supply chains) as agencies align behind the Special Envoy’s initiatives. Immediate actions: map revenue/supply-chain exposure to current conflict zones, review sanctions/export-control and third-party risk controls for those markets, and monitor State/DoD/USAID and White House announcements for new engagement channels, funding priorities, or contracting vehicles tied to peace missions.
Full Text
Executive Order 14311 of June 30, 2025
Establishing a White House Office for Special Peace Missions
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1 . White House Office for Special Peace Missions. In order to assist in bringing about the end of conflict and strife around the world, the Office for Special Peace Missions is hereby established within the White House Office. The Office for Special Peace Missions shall be headed by a Special Envoy for Peace Missions, who shall be appointed by the President. The Special Envoy for Peace Missions shall advance efforts aimed at ending ongoing conflicts abroad, and shall work towards these ends in coordination with the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and all other relevant executive departments and agencies.
Sec. 2 . General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 30, 2025.