Challenges of Prevention and Resolution

Abstract

Intrastate conflicts are the characteristic of current world affairs. The controls of the Cold War have been removed without replacement but the fuel (arms, troops, money, ideology ) that Cold War protagonists often offered to local conflicts is still available from less manageable sources. The rising phenomenon of state collapse creates a vacuum that sucks in neighbors’ involvement. Inter-state conflicts also occur, on their own and as a result of intrastate spillover, and may well return to their former prominence as regional leaders fight out issues of rank and relations among each other.