The “Making Conflict Prevention Real” Declaration, adopted by the High-Level Advisory Board at the December 3 2007 meeting of the Task Force constitutes the culmination of the Task Force’s work in the first year of its existence and provides a clear statement of the intent and the commitment to work towards shortening the time between early warning and early action to prevent violent conflict in the years ahead. The Declaration makes clear the action steps that the Task Force will take to ensure effective change in the conflict prevention architecture and in building political will for effective and early action. It outlines two particular initiatives that the Task Force is now working towards establishing: an “International Panel on Conflict Prevention and Human Security” and a “Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention and Human Security”.

These initiatives are all initial answers to the existing deficiencies in the conflict prevention architecture and to key issues of building political will for conflict prevention.

Read the Declaration.