Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 08/2011

Second Annual Conference on Preventing Violent Conflict

Abiodun Williams, Lawrence Woocher, Jonas Claes

July 2011

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

USIP's annual "Preventing Violent Conflict" conference is designed to spotlight the importance of the subject, address specific challenges facing prevention efforts and identify priority areas for USIP's future work on conflict prevention. This brief summarizes the highlights of that conference.