Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:
Foreword;
Introduction;
Chapters:
I. The Quiet Revolutionary: A Biographical Sketch of James S. Sutterlin - Jean Krasnow;
II. The United Nations and International Security - B.G. Ramcharan;
III. The Evolution of the Doctrine and Practice of Early Warning and Conflict Prevention in the United Nations System - Tapio Kanninen and Chetan Kumar;
IV. The Continental Early Warning System of the African Union - B.G. Ramcharan;
V. CEWARN: IGAD's Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism - Douglas Bond and Patrick Meier;
VI. The ASEAN Regional Forum and Conflict Prevention in Southeast and East Asia - Robin Ramcharan;
VII. International Conflict Prevention: Discreet Fact-Finding Mission to Bulgaria and Turkey (1989) - B.G. Ramcharan;
VIII. Preventive Peacekeeping Deployment: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1992) - B.G. Ramcharan;
IX. Internal Conflict Prevention: Observing Mass Action in South Africa (1992) - B.G. Ramcharan, X. Internal Conflict Prevention: The UN Observer Mission to South Africa (UNOMSA) 1992 - Angela King,
XI. Preventing War between Eritrea and Yemen over the Hanish Islands (1996) - B.G. Ramcharan,
XII. Internal Conflict Mitigation and Containment of Terrorism: Panel of Eminent Persons to Algeria (1998) - B.G. Ramcharan,
XIII. Conflict Containment: The Security Council Mission to East Timor (1999) - Peter van Walsum,
XIV. Iran-Iraq, 1988: Was It Prevention? It Looks More So Today - Giandomenico Picco,
XV. How Good Offices Changed the Nature of the Border Dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria - Jack Christofides,
XVI. Burundi: Evolution of Conflict Prevention Approaches - Yasser Sabra,
XVII. The Human Rights Dimension: Human Rights and Risk Analysis - B.G. Ramcharan,
XVIII. The Prevention of Gross Violations of Human Rights: Report of the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (2000),
XIX. The Prevention of Racial Discrimination through Early Warning and Urgent Procedures -Nathalie Prouvez,
Conclusion;
List of Contributors;
Index.