The majority of the MOD’s conflict prevention activity in 2006-07, as most recently set out in our Spring Supplementary Estimates, has been through our operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. The MOD has also continued to participate fully in the Global Conflict Prevention Pool (GCPP).
The GCPP maintains a number of geographic and thematic strategies, addressing conflict issues around the world (outside sub-Saharan Africa, which is the preserve of the Africa Conflict Prevention Pool). In 2006-07, the GCPP supported geographic strategies active in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Caribbean, Latin America, Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan, Indonesia, East Timor, the Middle East and North Africa, Nepal, and Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. In addition to these geographic strategies, the GCPP thematic strategies, which address the United Nations, Small Arms and Light Weapons, and Security Sector Reform issues, are also carrying out conflict prevention work around the world.