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The 161 recommendations of the German Federal Government's "Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution & Post-Conflict Peace-Building" aim to strengthen multilateral institutions & mechanisms & develop strategies for dealing with intra-state conflict. By bringing together representatives of the relevant ministries in a new inter-ministerial steering group coordinated by the Foreign Office, the Action Plan intends to improve the coherence of German policy. Although innovative in its approach, the Plan fails to identify political priorities & neglects "vested interests" among bureaucratic actors. Exactly these problems have recently been addressed in the UK. By establishing so-called Conflict Prevention Pools (CPPs), the British government has tried to encourage closer cooperation between development, foreign & security policy. The article summarizes lessons learned from first experiences & asks to what extent the new approach can be applied to the German context. 3 Tables, 1 Appendix. Adapted from the source document.