Laurie Nathan In 2015, Nigeria held elections that were widely expected to lead to large-scale violence. The risk derived in part from the country’s severe regional tensions, which included the religious and political cleavage between the North and the South, as well...
Author: Laurie Nathan
Professor of the Practice of Mediation; Mediation Program Director, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
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Preventing Small Fires from Becoming Big Fires: Successful Preventive Diplomacy by the UN
Laurie Nathan, Adam Day, João Honwana and Rebecca Brubaker From its inception, the United Nations (UN) has engaged in preventive diplomacy in situations of conflict in order to prevent the outbreak of large-scale violence. Preventive diplomacy has recently been given...


