Editors
David Carment is Associate Professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs of Carleton University, Ottawa. Albrecht Schnabel is Academic Programme Officer in the Peace and Governance Programme of the United Nations University, Tokyo.

Contents
Introduction: Conflict Prevention: A Concept in Search of a Policy. Part I: Conflict Prevention: Theory and Evidence • Conflict Prevention: Taking Stock • The Realism of Preventive Statecraft • Challenges to Preventive action: The cases of Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia • Evaluating success and failure: Conflict Prevention in Bosnia and Cambodia. Part II: The Institutional Record • Regional Organisations and Conflict Prevention: CFSP and ESDI in Europe • A Good Idea but a rocky road ahead: The EU and the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe • The OSCE and Conflict Prevention in the Post-Soviet Region. Part III: Information and Response • Early warning and Prevention of Violent Conflict • Early Warning Analysis and Policy planning in UN preventative action • The IMF and Conflict Prevention. Part IV: Building Capacity at the Regional Level • Conflict Prevention in Africa: Establishing Conditions and Institutions Conducive to durable peace • Conflict Prevention in the Americas: The Organisation of American States (OAS)

Contributors
David Carment • Albrecht Schnabel • Bruce W. Jentleson • Raimo Vδyrynen • Andrea Kathryn Talentino • David Last • John G. Cockell • Dane Rowlands • Troy Joseph • Simon Duke • Hans-Georg Ehrhart • Natalie Mychajlyszyn • Osvaldo Kreimer • Rasheed Draman