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AbstractThis issue of International Negotiation focuses on coordination in conflict resolution. It includes nine articles that discuss theoretical concerns and practical insights about coordination among organizations involved in various aspects of conflict prevention, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, highlighting the utility of applying negotiation theory to the analysis of their relationships, interactions, and cooperative processes. This article presents a thematic overview of the articles and concludes by outlining areas for further development of theory and practice.

Around the world, disinformation and related tactics are diminishing the space for independent voices and reasoned debates. Journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society organisations have been impacted and so have we. Here, we attempt to dispel common mischaracterisations of our work and staff.

Conflict prevention is not a new concept, but it has generated new interest in recent years among both academics & policymakers. Despite a significant amount of discussion & analysis relating to conflict prevention strategies, there has been minimal attention focused on the capacities of women in this area. The purpose of this article is to examine the frameworks that have been proposed for conflict prevention, survey some of women's recent conflict prevention-related activities around the world, & consider how women's initiatives can be incorporated into the development of effective conflict prevention policies at the regional & international levels. Adapted from the source document.

This essay examines the extent to which scholarly work offers new insights into the problematique of conflict prevention & whether there are any significant alterations in the international management of conflict. The existing literature generally exhibits a number of methodological & theoretical weaknesses, which makes conflict prevention less useful as an analytical concept. In practice, states & IGOs tend to dominate conflict prevention, but NGOs are increasingly important actors since most contemporary conflicts concern unstable state-society relations. (Inter)governmental-NGO relations in conflict prevention are characterized by cost-benefit calculations, shared normative concerns, & competing understandings of peace. As a way of bridging the gap between theory & practice, the author argues for a stronger emphasis by academics on diagnosis & cumulative knowledge of contemporary conflicts rather than endeavors to predict them. Adapted from the source document.

Conflict prevention has been the nomenclature of a non-military type of security policy, but that is changing. During the Cold War, the OSCE was a forum for conflict prevention at an interstate level. After the Cold War, OSCE conflict prevention turned to domestic affairs, comparable to NGO activities. This practice tends to be overshadowed by the EU. The EU has turned conflict prevention into an aspect of the ESDP. This practice competes with the way in which NATO includes conflict prevention. By developing conflict prevention beyond the context of the UN Security Council, and by adding a military dimension to it, conflict prevention can easily become an offensive intervention policy serving self-interested power politics, or mixed motives at the least. Moreover, non-military forms of conflict prevention politics are problematic too. They run the risk of burning in a hell of good intentions. Thus, the development of the conflict prevention discourse should be followed with scepticism. © 2006 University of Kent.