In separate promises, we have dealt with Obama's pledge to increase the size of the Foreign Service and to create a Civilian Assistance Corps, both of which are rated In the Works.

Here, we deal with Obama's pledge to "fully fund the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization and create a new Office of Conflict Prevention and Resolution with senior Ambassadors to support high-level negotiations and provide the expertise and capacity to seize opportunities or address crises as they arise."

In its proposed 2010 budget, the Obama administration sought $323 million for the Civilian Stabilization Initiative, "for necessary expenses to establish, support, maintain, mobilize, and deploy a civilian response corps and for related reconstruction and stabilization assistance to prevent or respond to conflict or civil strife in foreign countries or regions, or to enable transition from such strife." That's up from $45 million in 2009. Further, the administration's budget states that the money "may be made available to provide administrative expenses for the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization."

Congress ultimately cut that $323 million request to $120 million in the appropriations process.

Moreover, nothing in the administration's budget documents mentions funding the creation of a new Office of Conflict Prevention and Resolution. And no mention of such an office appears in any public documents available on the State Department's Web site.

So the budget that funds the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization was greatly increased, though it was significantly less than the Obama administration asked for (which would presumably fully fund the office). And we could find no evidence of efforts to create a new Office of Conflict Prevention. President Obama never promised to fully deliver on this promise in the first year, though, so we rate it Stalled.