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Action Plan
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Summary
On 12 May 2004, the Federal Government adopted the interministerial Action Plan “Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Peace-Building”. The purpose of the Action Plan is to anchor crisis prevention as a cross-sectoral political task at both government and civil society levels. At the same time, it suggested ways of creating or developing institutions and instruments of crisis prevention and of using them more coherently than hitherto.
The current German Government is also committed to the networked security concept and the Action Plan and the structures created with it remain in place. With the Action Plan, the German Government undertook to report to the German Bundestag every two years on its crisis prevention policy and the implementation of the Action Plan.
Basic tenets of the Action Plan
Foreign policy is peace policy. The prevention and resolution of crises are among the focuses of this policy. The Bundeswehr is also a key instrument of German peace policy. Civilian crisis prevention is a long-term undertaking.
The German Government laid down its principles on crisis prevention as early as April 2000 when it adopted its overall strategy “Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Peace-Building”.
The Action Plan “Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Peace-Building” adopted on 12 May 2004 forms the political frame of reference for the German Government’s crisis prevention policy.
The Action Plan is a programme in which the German Government commits itself to an ambitious crisis prevention policy. At the same time, the Action Plan also acknowledges the special importance of civil society in crisis prevention.
Non-governmental organizations are often comparatively better placed than state actors, as they frequently work at the grassroots level with direct access to communities in affected countries. Offers of cooperation to non-governmental players are therefore an essential part of the Action Plan. The German Government is promoting civil society approaches to crisis prevention in many different ways.
The Interministerial Steering Group for Civilian Crisis Prevention and the Advisory Board for Civilian Crisis Prevention were established on the basis of the Action Plan. The Subcommittee on Civilian Crisis Prevention and Networked Security came later.
In addition to the Federal Government, representatives of the legislature, civil society, academia and other institutions contributed to the drafting of the plan.
The Action Plan
- describes conflict structures and the resulting challenges facing the international community
- creates national structures for crisis prevention
- presents in 161 concrete recommendations specific fields of civilian peace policy in which the German Government should take action.
The proposed measures centre on the following areas:
- strengthening Germany’s contributions to multilateral initiatives
- reconstructing state structures in crisis regions
- promoting agents for peace in civil society
- safeguarding the livelihoods of people in crisis regions
Last updated 28.02.2011