Preventive Diplomacy: Stopping Wars before They Start

A new paradigm of conflict intervention modeled on the methodology of public health and using a medicine metaphor. The 19 contributors are an exceptionally impressive selection of international relations experts, including Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Honorable Cyrus Vance, Lord David Owen, Edward Mortimer, and Kenneth Hackett. Their essays search for the techniques that can stop disease (conflict) before it is transmitted by making trenchant observations of the contemporary myths and realities of the world community and the roles that the media, fact finding missions, partnerships, peace-keeping activities, and "healthy" alliances might have on the future of peace diplomacy. These papers were presented to the United Nations before being compiled in the present volume. Lacks an index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.