Strengthening regional stability through human security
The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the Center for Prevention and European Values (former Initiative for Peace-building and Democracy) in 2004 launched a project entitled “Partners in Peace and Prevention” which aimed at endorsing the concept of conflict prevention in order to raise awareness and social responsibility of the beneficiaries in the process of peace-building, democratization and integration. This conference was a continuation of the previous regional conferences “Prevention through Integration” and “Regional Perspective on Prevention-Stability, Human Security and Development”, which took place in Skopje, November 2005 and 2006 respectively, under the same project. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia supported these Conferences as part of the Project and a general promotion of the conflict prevention norm and humans security as foreign policy goals.