COERCIVE AND PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY/STRATEGY AND DIPLOMACY

COERCIVE AND PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY
STRATEGY AND DIPLOMACY

Contents  Introduction

 Aim

 Definition

 Coercive Diplomacy o Background o Framework for coercive diplomacy o Requirements for success o Coercive diplomacy case studies

 Preventive Diplomacy o What is preventive diplomacy? o Why is preventive diplomacy coming increasingly to the foe as option? o How exactly does UN practice preventive diplomacy? o What are some recent cases in which the UN used preventive diplomacy to ease tensions? o What are new areas of the focus for preventive diplomacy? o What are the key of increasingly successful use of preventive diplomacy?

 Conclusion

 References

Introduction

After the end of Cold War, the conflict between states have move from conventional to internal conflict. The large scale of violence had occurred and difficult to gather political wills and resources need for effective resolution and peacemaking. The deterrence and coercive diplomacy strategies and preventive diplomacy strategies are irrelevant for dealing with most intrastate conflicts but difficult to implement effectively. Better use of a variety of techniques for conflict avoidance and conflict resolution techniques such as mediation, peacekeeping, peacemaking, confidence and trust building measures, and unofficial so-called "Track Two" diplomacy. As distinguished from “Deterrence theory”, which is a strategy aimed at an adversary to dissuade him from undertaking an action not yet started, coercive diplomacy entails efforts to persuade an opponent to stop or reverse an action. Its central task is “to create in the opponent the expectation of costs of sufficient magnitude to erode his motivation to continue what he is doing. On the other hand, preventive diplomacy offers a set of tools to be used on a case-by-case basis by a wide range of actors to peacefully respond to threats and occurrences of mass atrocities by facilitating political solutions. AIM