Historically, the Conflict Resolution Program has supported the international application of conflict resolution practices that address ethnic, ideological, religious, and other intergroup conflicts. In more recent years the Program has been concerned with preventing and managing intractable conflicts through nongovernmental diplomacy, and preventing violence in transitional situations and emerging democracies by strengthening structures that channel and resolve grievances. While the domestic program primarily supported the development of a field of conflict resolution, the international program focused on demonstrations in troubled areas of the world that assessed how different processes of conflict resolution, democracy building, and civil society building worked to reduce deadly conflict. In 2002 and 2003, the Program began scaling back its international grantmaking and entered a period of assessment of this and other areas.

In 2004 we will complete our support or make final grants to grantees focusing on conflict prevention and management in specific countries and regions around the world.  We will give primary consideration to the further development of organizational infrastructure to support knowledge building and the promotion of international conflict resolution practices. This includes an interest in the education of important U.S. constituencies, such as the diplomatic, defense, and development communities, about the applications and lessons of conflict resolution strategies to their areas of interest. To date, our infrastructure support has been concentrated on the Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution, a membership organization comprised of many of our past and current international conflict resolution grantees and others performing similar work.

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The Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution