Peace, Security, and Conflict Prevention: SIPRI-UNESCO Handbook is a comprehensive, concise volume on security and conflict prevention in the post-cold war period 1992-96. It is drawn from the results of SIPRI's research and includes chapters on major armed conflicts; armed conflict prevention, management and resolution; world military expenditure, arms production and the arms trade; nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons; the arms control and agreements currently in force and under negotiation; the United Nations Organization; and special studies of regional and subregional security in Europe and Asia. A detailed chronology lists the major events of 1992-96 related to peace, security, and conflict prevention. The book also includes a useful glossary of terms and acronyms used in the security literature and gives the membership of international organizations concerned with security issues.

Readership: Scholars, students, policy-makers, and journalists working in the fields of strategic studies, international relations, and war and peace studies.

"...a most welcome vademecum in peace and war-realted issues, which will surely be of interest to others than the students and teachers for which it is mainly intended. -"

Preface
Introduction: A cooperative security system and a culture of peace
1: Major armed conflicts
2: Armed conflict prevention, management and resolution
3: Military expenditure, arms production and the arms trade
4: Weapons of mass destruction
5: Arms control
6: The United Nations
7: Regional and subregional security: Europe and Asia
8: Chronology of major events related to peace, security, and conflict prevention, 1992-96
9: Glossary: terms, acronyms and membership of international organizations