In collaboration with African conflict transformation practitioners, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs developed thematic training workshops on conflict analysis and early response, conflict sensitive development, mediation and negotiation skills, and conflict management systems design.

The disorderly development of some peace keeping operations casts doubt on the Organization apos s ability to manage conflicts.

(a) Development of its early warning system, including the Situation Room of the Conflict Management Directorate

(a) Development of its early warning system, including the Situation Room of the Conflict Management Centre

Some of these missions have tasks in the field of conflict prevention, while others deal with crisis management.

Regardless of why conflicts are greater in times of economic adversity, how a society deals with them depends on the scope and quality of its conflict management institutions.

The Security Council further recognizes the increasing importance of civilian aspects of conflict management in addressing complex crisis situations and in preventing the recurrence of conflict and acknowledges the importance of civilian military cooperation in crisis management.

All good conflict management practitioners know that one cannot make headway in resolving a conflict without first getting the conflicting parties to have a shared understanding of the problems confronting them.

The capacity of the United Nations for action in conflict prevention and in crisis management has for some time been stretched to the limit.

Fatal Thaws

The Conflict Management Capacity Building Project of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs has been operational in sub Saharan Africa for four years, seeking to strengthen the ability of African institutions to anticipate, analyse and respond effectively in conflict environments.

Being a regional economic organization BSEC is not directly involved in peace keeping or conflict management activities.

The collaborative agenda for preventive diplomacy would include conflict forecasting, conflict avoidance or prevention, conflict management, and the prevention of conflict escalation.

Lasting prevention means altering the conditions that give rise to conflicts.

It offers useful instruments for conflict prevention, crisis management and conflict resolution.

Conflict prevention and recovery

Civil conflict war

The Risk and Disaster Management Programme provides local government, communities and business organizations with practical strategies for mitigating and recovering from conflicts and natural disasters.

Ongoing reconciliation, as well as the management of conflicts between nomads and farmers, will require a great deal of political attention and resources for compensation and development.

In collaboration with the Department for Disarmament Affairs, the Portal has become a valuable gateway for information on disarmament in conflict management and peacebuilding, in that disarmament is one of the 10 thematic areas of the Portal.

It is in this regard that we reiterate the New Partnership for Africa's Development view on how best to assist Africa to build its capacity to manage conflicts.

In this context, we collectively aim to build our continent's capacity to manage these conflicts by strengthening our regional and subregional institutions to deal with conflict prevention, as well as by combating illicit proliferation of small arms and light weapons.

Scarcity creates conflict and unless you have a way to resolve conflict, your colony falls apart.

Political support and conflict reconciliation

Conflict prevention and resolution ___________

Prevention of armed conflict

Prevention of armed conflict

Prevention of armed conflict'

Prevention of armed conflict

We are committed to ending the conflicts.

Efforts to prevent conflicts were meaningless if the economic roots of those conflicts were not addressed.

We are no longer dealing with conflicts between nation States, but rather with armed domestic conflicts within States.

Unfortunately, the outcome document pays far less attention to conflict prevention and conflict resolution, especially with regard to internal conflicts.

They came from all backgrounds and belief systems, for indeed conflicts are a common human experience.

These conflicts severely test the international community s capacity and resolve to deal with humanitarian needs and conflict resolution.

Children affected by armed conflict

Computational Modeling to Study Conflicts and Terrorism.

Protecting children in armed conflict

Subprogramme 1 Prevention, control and resolution of conflicts

The protection of civilians in armed conflict

Conflict resolution and peacebuilding

Prevention of armed conflict.

Protecting children in armed conflicts

And yet, conflicts erupt and persist.

Prevention, control and resolution of conflicts