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Draws on personal experience to present an overview of efforts to help institutionalize the teaching & practice of conflict resolution in the newly independent states of the former USSR & Eastern & Central Europe. Such efforts include George Mason U's (Fairfax, VA) Instit of Conflict Analysis & Resolution's programs in Armenia, Azerbaijan, & Turkey (funded primarily by the US Instit of Peace), & the author's work, in conjunction with Partners for Democratic Change, in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, & the Slovak Republic. These activities are located in the context of a model for a new European peace & security system. Adapted from the source document.

THIS ARTICLE REPORTS ON A SURVEY OF THE VIEWS OF CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE ELITES ON PEACE AND SECURITY IN POST-COLD WAR EUROPE. THE FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT THERE APPEAR TO BE THREE DISTINCT META-CULTURES DEVELOPING IN THE NEW EUROPE: ONE COMPRISES THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIAN REPUBLICS (FYUG), TOGETHER WITH THE FORMER NON-SOVIET MEMBERS OF THE WARSAW PACT (NSWP) AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO); ANOTHER COMPRISES THE NEUTRAL AND NONALIGNED (NNA); AND THE THIRD COMPRISES THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU). THE FYUG-NSWP-NATO CLUSTER APPEARS TO BE MORE FLEXIBLE-FURTHER AWAY FROM COLD WAR REALPOLITIK AND CLOSER TO AN IDEALPOLITIK FRAMEWORK-THAN ARE THE NNA AND FSU. THIS FLEXIBILITY HAS ALSO BEEN SUGGESTED BY THE FYUG-NSWP-NATO CLUSTER'S APPEARING TO BE MORE IN FAVOR OF CHANGE IN EXISTING INTERNATIONAL MECHANISMS THAN ARE THE NNA AND FSU. THE ARTICLE CONCLUDES WITH RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT HOW TRACK 1 GOVERNMENTS AND INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND TRACK 2 NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS CAN BETTER INTEGRATE THEIR PEACEKEEPING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION RESOURCES, ESPECIALLY IN DEALING WITH CURRENT AND FUTURE YUGOSLAVIAS.