Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 09/2010

Conflict Prevention: Principles, Policies and Practice

Abiodun Williams, Lawrence Woocher, Jonas Claes

August 2010

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

On July 1, 2010, the U.S. Institute of Peace organized an all-day conference entitled "Preventing Violent Conflict: Principles, Policies, and Practice." The goals of this conference were to spotlight the importance of conflict prevention, to foster productive discussions between leading scholars and distinguished practitioners, and to identify priority areas for future work on conflict prevention by the Institute and the field at large. This Peace Brief provides an overview of that day's discussions.