• Risk Assessment
• Operational Research
• Multicriteria
• Early Warning
• Logic Function
• Conflict Analysis
• Clustering

The research on methods for conflict resolution and prevention has improved dras-
tically in the last years. In particular computer-aided methods have acquired more
importance because they allow for larger databases with more variables, complex
statistical analysis, deeper insights etc... This thesis intends to give a description of
those methods and pro jects that I consider most interesting and/or representative in
the field, with the goal of pointing out some questions and problems which need still
to be answered. Moreover two new methods, never used before for conflict situation,
are also presented: Multicriteria-Clustering and Logic Functions.