Managing Civil Wars.

Assesses when and why preventive diplomacy succeeds and when it fails in an effort to develop a response-oriented framework that will address how the international response system can be redesigned to act quickly to prevent or limit the escalation of violent conflict. Concept of preventive diplomacy in the post-cold war context; Comparative study of conflicts in Somalia, Rwanda and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Inferences of case study evidence for the efficacy of preventive diplomacy.