is action to prevent disputes from arising between parties, to
prevent existing disputes from escalating into conflicts and to
limit the spread of the latter when they occur.. Michael S.
Lund, the author of "Preventing Violent Conflict: A Strategy for
Preventive Diplomacy", identifies it as "action taken in
vulnerable places and times to avoid the threat or use of armed
force and related forms of coercion by states or groups to
settle the political disputes that can arise from the
destabilizing effects of economic, social, political, and
international change." Since the end of the Cold War The Cold
War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of
political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic
competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet
Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the
Western world, primarily the United States... the international
community through international institutions has been focusing
on preventive diplomacy. As the United Nation