From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent Conflict
  • 2003/434 pages
  • A project of the International Peace Institute

From Promise to Practice:

Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent Conflict

Chandra Lekha Sriram and Karin Wermester, editors
Hardcover: $62.00
ISBN: 978-1-58826-135-9
Paperback: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-58826-112-0
How can the United Nations, regional and subregional organizations, government donors, and other policymakers best apply the tools of conflict prevention to the wide range of intrastate conflict situations actually found in the field? The detailed case studies and analytical chapters in From Promise to Practice offer operational lessons for fashioning strategy and tactics to meet the challenges of specific conflicts, both potential and actual.
Chandra Lekha Sriram was professor of human rights and Director of the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict at the University of East London School of Law. Karin Wermester is on the staff of the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator's Office in Sudan. She is a contributing editor to Peacebuilding as Politics: Cultivating Peace in Fragile Societies.