The EastWest Institute established the multiyear “International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy” as the flagship of its Conflict Prevention Program in May 2007. The Task Force has one core purpose: it will investigate and promote concrete ways of strengthening practical mechanisms to build domestic and international political will to shorten the time between early warning and effective early response to violent conflict. To this end, the Task Force has adopted a set of Guiding Principles as a framework for its activities over the next few years.
Partners
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s mission is to help reduce poverty, improve living conditions for Africans and mobilize resources for the continent’s economic and social development. With this objective in mind, the institution aims at assisting African countries – individually and collectively - in their efforts to achieve sustainable economic development and social progress. Combating poverty is at the heart of the continent’s efforts to attain sustainable economic growth. To this end, the Bank seeks to stimulate and mobilize internal and external resources to promote investments as well as provide its regional member countries with technical and financial assistance.
On November 23 and 24, 2009, the EastWest Institute, in partnership with the African Development Bank, convened a regional meeting in Tunis on preventive action in Africa. The meeting brought together representatives from the defense, diplomacy and development sectors, along with civil society, to identify action-oriented recommendations to strengthen African capacity to prevent violent conflict before it begins.
Across Latin America and the Caribbean, UNDP helps countries build and share their own solutions to urgent development challenges, supporting coalitions for change and connecting individuals and institutions so they can share knowledge, experience and resources. As countries develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of regional and global partners.
The Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention together with the UNDP Regional Center for Latin America brought together representatives from defense, diplomacy, development, and civil society sectors in Central America and the Caribbean at a meeting in Panama on November 16 and 17, 2009. The meeting focused on identifying action-oriented recommendations that strengthen the capacity to deal with challenges to peace and security in Central America and the Caribbean, such as transnational organized crime, border disputes, and migration flows.
The Stockholm International Water Institute SIWI is a policy institute whose diverse Stockholm-based, internationally-oriented programmes and activities contribute to finding sustainable solutions to the world’s escalating water crisis. SIWI manages projects, synthesises research and publishes findings and recommendations on current and future water, environment, governance and human development issues. SIWI serves as a platform for knowledge sharing and networking between the scientific, business, policy and civil society communities. SIWI builds professional capacity and understanding of the links between water-society-environment-economy.
On September 5, 2010, the EastWest Institute and its Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention co-hosted with the Stockholm International Water Institute (www.siwi.org) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (www.sida.se) a workshop at the 20th edition of the annual World Water Week in Stockholm. The workshop entitled “Charting Cooperative Paths on the Water and Development Nexus in the Euphrates-Tigris Rivers System” brought together more than 50 representatives from the basin countries and regional organizations, as well as international experts on regional integration, economic benefits and international water management to explore cooperative paths towards improved regional integration.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues (APPGCI) was set up in the UK Parliament in September 2006 to provide a forum for dialogue between Parliamentarians, Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) and civil society on alternative methods of preventing and resolving violent conflict.
The APPGCI focuses on violent conflict both internationally and domestically, which is reflected in our work with organisations both from abroad and within the UK.
APPGCI’s aim is to influence HMG, and by extension, other governments, to improve resource allocation and capacity building for conflict prevention, non-violent conflict resolution and peace building. It does this by encouraging dialogue, on the basis of expert information and opinion from across the political spectrum, on issues relating to conflict; especially the practical means to prevent, transform and resolve violent conflict, both in the UK and internationally.
