CONFLICT PREVENTION AND POST-CONFLICT
RECONSTRUCTION
CONCLUSION
202. The end of the Cold War has brought immense
challenges to the security of peoples and nations. The prevalence
of conflict in poor regions of the world can no longer be seen
as merely a strategic issue, or even as simply a moral issue -
though it is both those things. It is also, and as importantly,
a developmental issue. Unless we can devise approaches to prevent
conflict, development activity will again and again be wasted,
undermined or reversed. Conversely, as this Report makes clear,
it is only in sustainable development that real solutions to endemic
conflict can be found. There is now a considerable body of shared
analysis and wisdom on conflict prevention and post-conflict reconstruction.
We point in this Report to some of the ways that politicians should
act to learn and apply those lessons. To do so requires a degree
of commitment and coordination not previously attempted. Not to
do so is to miss the opportunity to make the lives of millions
immeasurably safer and better.
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