A Crisis or Conflict Prevention Center for the Middle East.

Abstract

In conjunction with higher-profile bilateral negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the parallel multilateral talks on Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) help further the Middle East peace process launched in Madrid in October 1991. Since the Madrid conference, one issue that has aroused recurrent interest during the ACRS talks is the question of whether some form of crisis or conflict prevention center might help to assuage Arab-Israeli conflicts of interest in the region. This study addresses that issue. The words crisis and "center," however, are not the only terms that could be employed to identify the issue. Other descriptive labels- such as "conflict prevention," which derives from Europe's institutional experience in this regard and addresses approximately the same phenomenon, or "conflict avoidance," or "avoidance of war"- could also be used to define the basic prevention objective. Similarly, words like "mechanism" or "arrangements" leap to mind as equivalent formulations or acceptable substitutes for the notion of a prevention "center." pg17. JMD

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA294812

Entities

People

  • Richard E. Darilek

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Aircrafts
  • Arms Control
  • Cold War
  • Crisis Management
  • Governments
  • Information Exchange
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • International Security
  • Middle East
  • North America
  • Public Policy
  • Regional Security
  • Treaties
  • United States

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.