How to Establish an Early Warning System:
Concept and First Steps in Switzerland

Andreas V. Kohlschutter; Gunther Bachler

doi:10.25071/1920-7336.21908

How to Establish an Early Warning System: Concept and First Steps in Switzerland

Authors

Andreas V. Kohlschutter
Gunther Bachler

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21908

Keywords:

NGO, Rwanda, early warning, conflict

Abstract

The authors introduce a pilot project on a general conflict warning system mainly designed to serve the Swiss Foreign Ministry. Especially after the Rwanda disaster, the administration (backed by the Foreign Committee of the Parliament) underlines the need for a computerized system that builds the ground for early recognition and, thus, enhances the "institutionalized" pressure to (re)act in a stage of a conflict as early as possible. Questions arise on the state of the art as weIl as on the interface between early warning on one hand and decision making and early action on the other.

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1997-05-01

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Kohlschutter, A. V., & Bachler, G. (1997). How to Establish an Early Warning System: Concept and First Steps in Switzerland. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 16(1), 16–18. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21908

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (1997): Special Issue on Early Warning and Early Response

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