Suggested Roles for Governments and NGOs
The purpose of this paper is to provide RRN members who may be unfamiliar with
issues of conflict and conflict prevention with a brief overview of recent trends and
research in relation to conflicts, review the prospects for advancing preventive
diplomacy and suggest some of the options for action which governments and
NGOs might pursue. A list of useful contacts and addresses in the conflict
prevention field is provided in Annex 1 for those RRN members wishing to explore
this area further.
