Conflict prevention, peacebuilding and state building

Focusing on our partnerships with the United Nations, NATO and others, this programme examines preventing and addressing conflict through early warning, and stabilisation and peace-keeping measures.  Meetings also discuss developing capacity for good governance and justice with sustainable economic recovery in post conflict reconstruction.

Our partners

Sponsors and intellectual partners include the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, the United States Institute for Peace, UK Counterinsurgency Centre and UK government departments.  We have also convened an Arab-West dialogue in Egypt with the Centre for Arab Unity Studies, the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm International Peace Research Unit and the Swedish Institute.

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Reports

An overview of our discussions are published shortly after each meeting and can be found on our reports page.

Recent meetings

• Civil resistance: popular movements challenging oppression: policy issues for the International community
  
  
• Global conflict-future trends and challenges: towards 2030 (the fifth in the annual series of ‘Futures’ conferences)
  
  
• Power after peace: the political economy of post-conflict statebuilding - what policy implications?
  
  
• The art of the possible: conflict diplomacy in an era of new global challenges
  
  
• Talking while fighting: conditions and modalities, considering comparative approaches to stabilisation and counter-insurgency

Podcasts

Recorded during each meeting, key specialists are gathered together to take part in a discussion which acts as a general overview of the issues being examined at the meeting. Aimed as an introduction to a topic, our podcasts are published on our website and Mixcloud.

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