Violence often emerges from the volatile combination of deprivation and discrimination conditions often exploited by leaders determined to use violence to achieve their aims. Yet a strong international political impulse to address such conflict has encouraged the development and application of workable prevention policies and tools. Structural prevention emphasizes the importance of long-term engagement and rests on the idea of the capable society or capable state one characterized by representative governance, widespread market economic activity, robust civil society and grounded on the rule of law. In other words, capable states provide for their citizens circumstances of security, well-being and justice that not only make societies better off, but also inhibit the tendency to resort to violence to broker differences. Operational prevention relies on urgent, often more assertive, measures to preempt fatal decisions and avert crisis.
Operational prevention rests on the effectiveness of early action upon receipt of timely warning.
UNF s work in the areas of children s health, women and population, and on the environment highlight the importance of the UN s role in creating conditions of well-being. The Peace, Security and Human rights program will complement these efforts by strengthening the UN to help to create conditions of security and justice within and between societies. UNF will develop a framework to support work that will focus on the link between the flow of illicit weapons and the arming of children. Human rights and preventive action. UNF will consult intensively with the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights to offer proposals on ways to position the human rights agenda more centrally as an anchor for UN prevention efforts.