Introduction ± Con ̄ict prevention: A concept in search of a policy
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چکیده
. . . despite all the talk and activity in this ®eld since the early 1990's, the basic argument and message of con ̄ict prevention still has not `stuck' in many critical policy quarters and levels of decision making. The quantity of policy doctrine, designated of®cials and of®ces, routinised decision procedures, public hearings, policy papers, political debates, appropriations, non-governmental organizations (NGO) network newsletters, programme regulations, job openings, ®eld manuals, policy institutes, and other institutional infrastructure that is commonplace for other post-Cold War policy concerns such as humanitarianism, terrorism, development, democracy, peacekeeping, and arms control still vastly outweighs the counterpart activity in the sister ®eld of con ̄ict prevention.1
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