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AbstractThis issue of International Negotiation focuses on coordination in conflict resolution. It includes nine articles that discuss theoretical concerns and practical insights about coordination among organizations involved in various aspects of conflict prevention, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, highlighting the utility of applying negotiation theory to the analysis of their relationships, interactions, and cooperative processes. This article presents a thematic overview of the articles and concludes by outlining areas for further development of theory and practice.

Around the world, disinformation and related tactics are diminishing the space for independent voices and reasoned debates. Journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society organisations have been impacted and so have we. Here, we attempt to dispel common mischaracterisations of our work and staff.

Conflict prevention is not a new concept, but it has generated new interest in recent years among both academics & policymakers. Despite a significant amount of discussion & analysis relating to conflict prevention strategies, there has been minimal attention focused on the capacities of women in this area. The purpose of this article is to examine the frameworks that have been proposed for conflict prevention, survey some of women's recent conflict prevention-related activities around the world, & consider how women's initiatives can be incorporated into the development of effective conflict prevention policies at the regional & international levels. Adapted from the source document.

This essay examines the extent to which scholarly work offers new insights into the problematique of conflict prevention & whether there are any significant alterations in the international management of conflict. The existing literature generally exhibits a number of methodological & theoretical weaknesses, which makes conflict prevention less useful as an analytical concept. In practice, states & IGOs tend to dominate conflict prevention, but NGOs are increasingly important actors since most contemporary conflicts concern unstable state-society relations. (Inter)governmental-NGO relations in conflict prevention are characterized by cost-benefit calculations, shared normative concerns, & competing understandings of peace. As a way of bridging the gap between theory & practice, the author argues for a stronger emphasis by academics on diagnosis & cumulative knowledge of contemporary conflicts rather than endeavors to predict them. Adapted from the source document.

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Language, Integration of Societies and Conflict Prevention -- Introduction: Shaping Language Policies to Promote Stability /Bob Deen and William Romans -- The hcnm Approach to the Promotion of the State/Official Language in Various osce Participating States /Laurenţiu Hadîrcă -- To Speak or Not to Speak: Minority Languages, the Public Administration and the Enforcement of Linguistic Requirements /Iryna Ulasiuk and Laurenţiu Hadîrcă -- Mind Your Own Business: The Oslo Recommendations and the Linguistic Rights of National Minorities in Economic Life /Jennifer Croft -- The Intersection of Language and Religion in the Context of National Minorities /Asa Solway and Alessandro Rotta -- hcnm Recommendations on the Use of Minority Languages in the Broadcast Media as a Baseline for Context-specific Advice to Participating States /Sarah Stephan and and Dmitry Nurumov -- The hcnm Impact on Minority and State Language Promotion and on the Social Integration of Diverse Societies Through Education: The Cases of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan /Atanasia Stoianova and Michael Angermann -- Language Rights and Evolving Standards and Practice -- Continued Relevance of an 'Oslo' Language Policy in a Changing World /Fernand de Varennes and and Elżbieta Kuzborska -- "The Borders of My Language Mean the Borders of My World". Language Rights and Their Evolving Significance for Minority Rights and Integration of Societies /Francesco Palermo -- Language Rights in the Work of the Advisory Committee /Petra Roter and and Brigitta Busch -- The Right to Display Place Names in Regional or Minority Languages within the Council of Europe Legal Framework /Vesna Crnić-Grotić -- Protection of Linguistic Rights of Linguistic Minorities in the un Context /Rita Izsák-Ndiaye -- Language Rights and the Work of the European Union /Bruno De Witte -- 'Taking Oslo Online': Minority Language Policy and the Internet /Jennifer Jackson-Preece -- Language Rights and Duties for New Minorities: Integration through Diversity Governance /Joseph Marko and Roberta Medda-Windischer.

Conflict prevention has been the nomenclature of a non-military type of security policy, but that is changing. During the Cold War, the OSCE was a forum for conflict prevention at an interstate level. After the Cold War, OSCE conflict prevention turned to domestic affairs, comparable to NGO activities. This practice tends to be overshadowed by the EU. The EU has turned conflict prevention into an aspect of the ESDP. This practice competes with the way in which NATO includes conflict prevention. By developing conflict prevention beyond the context of the UN Security Council, and by adding a military dimension to it, conflict prevention can easily become an offensive intervention policy serving self-interested power politics, or mixed motives at the least. Moreover, non-military forms of conflict prevention politics are problematic too. They run the risk of burning in a hell of good intentions. Thus, the development of the conflict prevention discourse should be followed with scepticism. © 2006 University of Kent.