The Center on International Cooperation is establishing a new program on strategies to prevent conflict through the use of development and diplomatic tools, and the reform of national and international institutions. Working with the UN and governments, CIC's program looks beyond response mechanisms to investigate new sources of risk and the policy tools required to prevent or to mitigate conflict and state fragility.
CIC's analysis and research incorporates different levels of prevention. CIC is exploring both the comparative advantages (and disadvantages) of the UN system in operational prevention efforts in the face of incipient conflict, and examining the way in which national and international actors are reforming their crisis-management mechanisms. The structural sources of conflict are also a matter of concern, and CIC is examining both early warning of state collapse and options for improved bilateral and multilateral response.
Program Coordinator: Catherine Bellamy
Funders: Government of Denmark, UK Global Conflict Prevention Pool, Ford Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation |
