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“The Role of Inter-cultural Dialogue as an IntegralTenet of the United Nations Conflict Prevention andResolution: A Central Asian Perspective”IntroductionThere has been a shift in the nature of conflicts at the end of the 20 thcentury,from simple bipolar ideological divisions into a more complex web of conflicts basedon ethnic, cultural and identity differences, intolerance and discrimination. In manyinstances, inter-ethnic, inter-clan and religious tensions take the shape of internalconfrontations that are dangerously pregnant with internationalization. 2Obviously,domestic politics affect international politics. 3On many occasions, this worsensregional prospects for peace and results in inter-state confrontation, requiring theintervention of the international community. Preventing and resolving such conflictsis a challenge which urgently begs for a new multidisciplinary peaceful conflictprevention and resolution framework.The debate over international responses to the problems and challenges ofconflict resolution has basically focused around one main question: What can theinternational community do to prevent, and peacefully resolve, conflicts? 4Timur DadabaevThis paper draws on perspectives of inter-cultural dialogue as an integral tenetof the United Nations (UN) strategy to peacefully prevent and resolve conflicts. Thus,it takes the stance that peaceful conflict resolution in a broad sense“has come to beviewed as a meaning much more than the absence of armed conflict”, and implies1842 There exist a huge number of such examples of internal conflicts, which contain a potential to grow intointernational conflicts. These types of conflicts appear to increase in both number and the specter of threat theypose to the international community. See analysis of this phenomenon in S. A. Giannakos, ed., Ethnic Conflict:Religion, identity and Politics, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002, pp. 190-216, in particular, pp. 194-198.3KevinAvruch,CultureandConflictResolution,Washington,D.C.:UnitedStatesInstituteofPeacePress,1998,p.30.4 For example, see SG/SM/7702, 5 February 2001,“Peace-building done well a powerful deterrent to violent conflict,Secretary-General Tells Security Council”, or A/47/277-S/24111, 12 June 1992 (“An Agenda for Peace”) andA/50/60-S/1995/1, 3 January 1995 (“Supplement to an Agenda for Peace”).