Conflict Management

The CPA works in partnership with others in the international community and with individual Parliaments and their Members to apply the expertise of Commonwealth Parliamentarians to the task of managing conflicts.

In 2004, the CPA and the World Bank Institute organized a Study Group on Parliaments in Conflict-Affected Countries, followed a year later by a wider CPA/Wilton Park Conference on promoting good governance and development in conflict-affected countries. These two meetings enabled Parliamentarians and others working in the field to consider how emerging conflicts can best be managed to avert the incidence of wider violence. The issue was also addressed at Commonwealth Parliamentary Conferences in 2002 and 2005.

Parliaments as Peacebuilders in Conflict-Affected Countries

Edited by Mitchell O'Brien , Rick Stapenhurst , Niall Johnston

 Paperback 250 pages
Published May 2008
ISBN: 0-8213-7579-2     ISBN-13: 978-0-8213-7579-2     SKU: 17579

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The changing nature of conflict and the increase in intrastate conflict during the 1990s, followed by its slow decline since the turn of the century, have led to changing priorities in the field of conflict resolution. No longer is the international community solely concerned with resolving existing conflicts; it also is managing emerging conflicts to ensure that they do not flare into violent conflict. This book outlines some of the strategies parliaments and parliamentarians can adopt to reduce the incidence of conflict and effectively manage conflict when it does emerge. It is hoped that by developing a better understanding of the nexus between parliament, poverty, and conflict parliamentarians will be more aware of the array of options open to them as they seek to contribute to conflict management in conflict-affected societies.