Albrecht Schnabel is senior research fellow at swisspeace, Bern. David Carment is director of the Centre for Security and Defense Studies and associate professor of international affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa.

These two volumes form an encyclopedic study of the means of conflict prevention. The first volume examines agents and institutions, the second causes and capacities. The choice of chapters to encompass the components of the subject is careful and comprehensive, and there is much bredth and wisdom in the chapters themselves. The volumes deserve a wide and bifocal audience. For analysts, the two volumes push back the frontiers into new aspects to study; for practitioners, they show that the challenge is in applying what we know aplenty, not in hiding behind claims of ignorance...

• Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Defining Preventive Diplomacy in Europe: September 11 and its Impact on the EU's Common Foreign and SecurityChapter 2 Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention: From Rhetoric to RealityChapter 3 NATO and the EU in the Eastern Mediterranean: Conflict Preventers or Conflict Managers?Chapter 6 The Conflict Prevention Agenda in Central AsiaChapter 7 Status Quo Policy and Conflict Prevention in Central AsiaChapter 8 Conflict Prevention in South AsiaChapter 9 The OSCE as Primary Instrument of Conflict Prevention in Europe: Frameworks, Achievements, and Limitations of OSCE's Preventive ActionChapter 9 Conflict Prevention in East AsiaChapter 10 Conflict Prevention and Management in AfricaChapter 12 Conflict Prevention: Responses by Subregional Organizations and Civil Society Organizations in Eastern AfricaChapter 13 Conflict Prevention is Happening: Learning from "Successes" as Well as "Failures"Chapter 13 The European Union and Conflict PreventionChapter 14 Early and Late Warning by the UN Secretary-General of Threats to the Peace: Article 99 RevisitedChapter 14 The Role of the Organization of American States in Conflict PreventionChapter 15 UN Strategic and Operational Coordination: Mechanisms for Preventing and Managing ConflictPart 16 Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention at the United NationsPart 19 Causes, Consequences, and Prevention of Conflict: Developing Capacity at the Regional LevelPart 20 Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention at Regional Organizations: The Institutional RecordChapter 20 Building UN Capacity in Early Warning and PreventionChapter 21 Conflict Prevention Mainstreaming: A comparison of Multilateral Actors

Albrecht Schnabel is senior research fellow at swisspeace, Bern. David Carment is director of the Centre for Security and Defense Studies and associate professor of international affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa.

These two volumes form an encyclopedic study of the means of conflict prevention. The first volume examines agents and institutions, the second causes and capacities. The choice of chapters to encompass the components of the subject is careful and comprehensive, and there is much bredth and wisdom in the chapters themselves. The volumes deserve a wide and bifocal audience. For analysts, the two volumes push back the frontiers into new aspects to study; for practitioners, they show that the challenge is in applying what we know aplenty, not in hiding behind claims of ignorance...

• Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Defining Preventive Diplomacy in Europe: September 11 and its Impact on the EU's Common Foreign and SecurityChapter 2 Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention: From Rhetoric to RealityChapter 3 NATO and the EU in the Eastern Mediterranean: Conflict Preventers or Conflict Managers?Chapter 6 The Conflict Prevention Agenda in Central AsiaChapter 7 Status Quo Policy and Conflict Prevention in Central AsiaChapter 8 Conflict Prevention in South AsiaChapter 9 The OSCE as Primary Instrument of Conflict Prevention in Europe: Frameworks, Achievements, and Limitations of OSCE's Preventive ActionChapter 9 Conflict Prevention in East AsiaChapter 10 Conflict Prevention and Management in AfricaChapter 12 Conflict Prevention: Responses by Subregional Organizations and Civil Society Organizations in Eastern AfricaChapter 13 Conflict Prevention is Happening: Learning from "Successes" as Well as "Failures"Chapter 13 The European Union and Conflict PreventionChapter 14 Early and Late Warning by the UN Secretary-General of Threats to the Peace: Article 99 RevisitedChapter 14 The Role of the Organization of American States in Conflict PreventionChapter 15 UN Strategic and Operational Coordination: Mechanisms for Preventing and Managing ConflictPart 16 Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention at the United NationsPart 19 Causes, Consequences, and Prevention of Conflict: Developing Capacity at the Regional LevelPart 20 Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention at Regional Organizations: The Institutional RecordChapter 20 Building UN Capacity in Early Warning and PreventionChapter 21 Conflict Prevention Mainstreaming: A comparison of Multilateral Actors

Albrecht Schnabel is senior research fellow at swisspeace, Bern. David Carment is director of the Centre for Security and Defense Studies and associate professor of international affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa.

These two volumes form an encyclopedic study of the means of conflict prevention. The first volume examines agents and institutions, the second causes and capacities. The choice of chapters to encompass the components of the subject is careful and comprehensive, and there is much bredth and wisdom in the chapters themselves. The volumes deserve a wide and bifocal audience. For analysts, the two volumes push back the frontiers into new aspects to study; for practitioners, they show that the challenge is in applying what we know aplenty, not in hiding behind claims of ignorance...

• Part 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Defining Preventive Diplomacy in Europe: September 11 and its Impact on the EU's Common Foreign and SecurityChapter 2 Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention: From Rhetoric to RealityChapter 3 NATO and the EU in the Eastern Mediterranean: Conflict Preventers or Conflict Managers?Chapter 6 The Conflict Prevention Agenda in Central AsiaChapter 7 Status Quo Policy and Conflict Prevention in Central AsiaChapter 8 Conflict Prevention in South AsiaChapter 9 The OSCE as Primary Instrument of Conflict Prevention in Europe: Frameworks, Achievements, and Limitations of OSCE's Preventive ActionChapter 9 Conflict Prevention in East AsiaChapter 10 Conflict Prevention and Management in AfricaChapter 12 Conflict Prevention: Responses by Subregional Organizations and Civil Society Organizations in Eastern AfricaChapter 13 Conflict Prevention is Happening: Learning from "Successes" as Well as "Failures"Chapter 13 The European Union and Conflict PreventionChapter 14 Early and Late Warning by the UN Secretary-General of Threats to the Peace: Article 99 RevisitedChapter 14 The Role of the Organization of American States in Conflict PreventionChapter 15 UN Strategic and Operational Coordination: Mechanisms for Preventing and Managing ConflictPart 16 Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention at the United NationsPart 19 Causes, Consequences, and Prevention of Conflict: Developing Capacity at the Regional LevelPart 20 Mainstreaming Conflict Prevention at Regional Organizations: The Institutional RecordChapter 20 Building UN Capacity in Early Warning and PreventionChapter 21 Conflict Prevention Mainstreaming: A comparison of Multilateral Actors