1.4: Conflict Prevention, Mitigation, and Response

Support conflict mitigation, peace, reconciliation, and justice processes.

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Recent armed conflicts have claimed hundreds of thousands of civilian lives and generated millions of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons. Conflict discourages investment, destroys infrastructure, derails development, fuels criminality and extremism, and undermines support for democracy. Diplomacy and assistance programs promote the peaceful resolution of differences, reduction of violence when it occurs, establishment of frameworks for peace and reconciliation in ongoing conflicts, and protection of human rights from systematic violation. We will support conflict mitigation, peace, reconciliation, and justice processes. Our diplomatic and development activities will reduce the threat or impact of violent conflict by developing early warning, crisis response planning and management, and rapid response capability. Peace, reconciliation, and justice processes will stress opportunities to bring together opposing parties, support negotiation processes, promote indigenous peace building efforts, and support appropriate processes to hold accountable perpetrators of mass atrocities. We will emphasize regional solutions to regional problems and sustainable, long-term strategies to address complex challenges. We will work closely with host government, international, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to promote security for civilians caught in conflict. We will strive to ensure access to threatened populations, support staff who monitor and resolve security problems, educate civilians about their rights and responsibilities for security, and design interventions and alternatives when security concerns arise. This will include educating local forces about international protection standards, the rights of civilians in conflict, and the protection responsibilities of states and other parties involved in conflict. Our humanitarian mine action programs enable affected nations to eliminate landmines and other explosive remnants of war that impede recovery from conflict. We will develop U.S. Government and partner capacity to conduct effective stabilization and reconstruction operations. We will lead and coordinate whole-of-government efforts to prepare, plan for, and conduct stabilization and reconstruction operations. We will strengthen collaboration with key partners, including the UN, the G8, regional organizations, and bilateral allies to improve international conflict prevention efforts and bolster national and international capabilities to respond to conflict and post-conflict situations. Recognizing that post-conflict states may have limited capacity and precarious legitimacy, the Department and USAID will help governments meet immediate demands for security and justice through transformational assistance strategies that will rely heavily on legitimate non-governmental actors, while strengthening legitimate state institutions.

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