The strategic goal of the Task Force is to devise practical mechanisms to generate domestic and international political will to shorten the time between early warning and effective early action to prevent violent conflict.

The strategic goal can be achieved by engaging high-level decision makers and other key stakeholders, in action oriented activities to promote and carry out preventive diplomacy. To this end the Task Force will serve as an adviser, initiator, innovator, and advocate on preventive diplomacy.

The Task Force has the advantage of flexibility, combining bottom-up and top-down approaches, and has the leeway to move quickly and discuss difficult issues that others are not in a position to. Its well-renowned members are action-oriented, and provide an opportunity to fill existing gaps in preventive diplomacy. The Task Force will:

• Foster the linkage between the various phases of the conflict cycle (prevention, management, post-conflict peacebuilding, reconciliation).
• Provide an additional resource to complement ongoing UN and regional processes and make timely interventions when official efforts have failed.
• Offer assistance and skills in quiet diplomacy, negotiation, problem-solving, mediation and facilitation to help build confidence and trust.

• Creation of an International Panel on Conflict Prevention and Human Security.
• Establishment of an International Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention and Human Security with the goal of developing support for national and international legislative mechanisms and structures to direct political will and resources toward conflict prevention.
• Awareness raising campaign, and high-level advocacy campaign targeted at national and international policy makers.
• Publish joint policy briefs from international figures and policy makers from the traditional security, development and foreign affairs communities that address practical considerations in moving to a culture of prevention.
• Establish a Conflict Transformation Collaborative of conflict prevention practitioners from around the world and involve them in transferring knowledge and skills to the local and regional level.
• Establish a broad network of media organizations and journalists who promote and work on conflict prevention.
• Develop a resourcing framework for preventive diplomacy.
• Video project on preventive diplomacy featuring the High-Level Advisory Board.