The EastWest Institute established the multiyear “International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy” as the flagship of its Conflict Prevention Program in May 2007.

The Task Force has one core purpose: it will investigate and promote concrete ways of strengthening practical mechanisms to build domestic and international political will to shorten the time between early warning and effective early response to violent conflict. To this end, the Task Force has adopted a set of Guiding Principles as a framework for its activities over the next few years.

Read more about the Task Force.

The “International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy High-Level Advisory Board Video” is a short film of 11 minutes within which the members of the Task Force High-Level Advisory Board (Martti Ahtisaari, Sadig Al Mahdi, Kim Campbell, Jan Eliasson, Gareth Evans, HRH Prince Hassan of Jordan, and Thorvald Stoltenberg) explain the complexities and the high stakes of conflict prevention and preventive diplomacy. It is an introduction to the subject of conflict prevention and is aimed at conflict prevention practitioners, organizations, and the public at large.

Watch the video.