Conflict Prevention from Rhetoric to Reality Organizations and Institutions

, by Schnabel, Albrecht; Carment, David; Abad, Medardo C., Jr.; Abazov, Rafis; Akbarzadeh, Shahram; Björkdahl, Annika; Cameron, Fraser; Dorn, A Walter; Duggan, Colleen; Dufresne, Charles; Giannakos, Symeon A.; Hertkorn, Michaela C.; Karuru, Njeri; Shiawl-Kidan

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ISBN: 9780739107386 | 0739107380
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/2/2004

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Together with local actors, many governments, regional organizations and the UN are embracing preventive action as a viable path towards sustainable peace. The contributions to this volume trace conflict prevention efforts in various regional contexts and explain how preventive thinking is being successfully mainstreamed into the activities of regional organizations and the UN.

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Acknowledgments

xvii

Part I Introduction

1 Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention: From Rhetoric to Reality

(20)

Albrecht Schnabel and David Carment

Part II Causes, Consequences, and Prevention of Conflict: Developing Capacity at the Regional Level

2 Defining Preventive Diplomacy in Europe: September 11 and Its Impact on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy

(18)

Michaela C. Hertkorn

3 NATO and the EU in the Eastern Mediterranean: Conflict Preventers or Conflict Managers?

(20)

Symeon A. Giannakos

4 The Conflict Prevention Agenda in Central Asia

(20)

Anara Tabyshalieva

5 Status Quo Policy and Conflict Prevention in Central Asia

(22)

Shahram Akbarzadeh and Rail's Abazov

6 Conflict Prevention in South Asia

103

(24)

Chetan Kumar

7 Conflict Prevention in East Asia

127

(22)

Medardo C. Abad, Jr.

8 Conflict Prevention and Management in Africa

149

(18)

Teferra Shiawl-Kidanekal

Part III Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention at Regional Organizations:The Institutional Record

9 The OSCE as a Primary Instrument of Conflict Prevention in Europe: Frameworks, Achievements, and Limitations of the OSCE's Preventive Action

167

(40)

Monika Wohlfeld

10 The European Union and Conflict Prevention

207

(16)

Fraser Cameron

11 The Role of the Organization of American States in Conflict Prevention

223

(40)

Yadira A. Soto

12 Conflict Prevention: Responses by Subregional Organizations and Civil Society Organizations in Eastern Africa

263

(26)

Njeri Karuru

Part IV Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention at the United Nations

13 Conflict Prevention Is Happening: Learning from "Successes" as Well as "Failures"

289

(16)

Michael S. Lund

14 Early and Late Warning by the UN Secretary-General of Threats to the Peace: Article 99 Revisited

305

(40)

A. Walter Dorn

15 UN Strategic and Operational Coordination: Mechanisms for Preventing and Managing Violent Conflict

345

(18)

Colleen Duggan

16 Building UN Capacity in Early Warning and Prevention

363

(24)

Charles Dufresne and Albrecht Schnabel

17 Conflict Prevention Mainstreaming: A Comparison of Multilateral Actors

387

(22)

Annika Björkdahl

Selected Bibliography

409

(6)

Index

415

(18)

Contributors

433

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Conflict Prevention from Rhetoric to Reality Organizations and Institutions

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