Conflict Prevention : Path to Peace or Grand Illusion?

by Carment, David; Schnabel, Albrecht

• ISBN13: 9789280810660
• ISBN10: 9280810669
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Brookings Inst

Summary

This publication evaluates the institutional record on conflict prevention, identifies current trends in conflict prevention practice, and makes recommendations on improving organizational capacity. The first part of the book addresses the question: What is successful conflict prevention? The second part reflects on how existing mechanisms and instruments for conflict prevention can be properly evaluated and improved, focusing on institutions at the forefront of conflict prevention policy such as EU, the OSCE and NATO. The contributors to this book are a diverse group of individuals involved in conflict prevention activities including, scholars from developed and developing countries, and practitioners with insights on the work of regional organizations and the United Nations.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction - Conflict Prevention: a Concept in Search of a Policy	p. 1
Notes	p. 8
Conflict Prevention: Theory and Evidence	p. 9
Conflict Prevention - Taking Stock	p. 11
Notes	p. 21
The Realism of Preventive Statecraft	p. 26
Notes	p. 43
Challenges to Preventive Action: the Cases of Kosovo and Macedonia	p. 47
Notes	p. 65
Evaluating Success and Failure: Conflict Prevention in Cambodia and Bosnia	p. 70
Notes	p. 86
The Institutional Record	p. 89
Regional Organizations and Conflict Prevention: Cfsp and Esdi in Europe	p. 91
Notes	p. 109
A Good Idea, but a Rocky Road Ahead: the Eu and the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe	p. 112
Notes	p. 129
The Osce and Conflict Prevention in the Post-Soviet Region	p. 133
Notes	p. 148
Information and Response	p. 155
Early Warning and Prevention of Violent Conflict: the Role of Multifunctional Observer Missions	p. 157
Notes	p. 179
Early Warning Analysis and Policy Planning in UN Preventive Action	p. 182
Notes	p. 202
The International Monetary Fund and Conflict Prevention	p. 207
Notes	p. 227
Building Capacity at the Regional Level	p. 231
Conflict Prevention in Africa: Establishing Conditions and Institutions Conducive to Durable Peace	p. 233
Notes	p. 251
Conflict Prevention in the Americas: the Organization of American States (oas)	p. 254
Notes	p. 275
Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. 279
Contributors	p. 283
Index	p. 289
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.