This is a vitally important contribution to the debate about preventive diplomacy, early responses to incipient violent conflict, and medium- to long-term peace-building and peacemaking processes.

Kevin P. Clements, director, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

A thoroughly informative, indeed, a dazzling tour d'horizon of new regional actors in preventive diplomacy.

Michael W. Doyle, Princeton University

...containing as it does a wealth of valuable and interesting information for the student of conflict and conflict prevention.

Michael O'Connor, Executive Director, Australia Defence Association, Ethnic Conflict Research Digest

Provides, first, a well-informed and down-to-earth macro-level analysis of the non-coercive conflict prevention mechanisms that are already operating in different parts of the world, and, secondly, a useful synthesis of those uncoordinated mechanisms in the form of a concrete institutional proposal. Peck should be congratulated for this valuable contribution to the conflict prevention literature.

Pacific Review

This book is an instance of peace research, and a very good one, too.

Terrorism and Political Violence

This is a very comprehensive survey of the existing organizations working to build sustainable peace. A network of interlocking institutions would indeed be an excellent way of building capacity and institutionalizing knowledge and practice of conflict prevention.

Olara A. Otunnu, president, International Peace Academy