Late preventive diplomacy: Attempts to persuade parties to desist from conflict when such eruptions seem imminent. (Evans, 1993; cited by Schmid 1998: http://www.fewer.org/pubs/thes.htm)
Late warning: The creation of warning signals after disaster has occurred. (Schmeidl and Jenkins 1998)
Legitimacy: The perception that a government, its leaders, and its policies are just and worthy of support. (Gurr and Harff 1994: 191)
Level of visible security: The amount of visible security forces on the streets, around public buildings, check points, traffic and ID checkpoints.
A) Conflict involving armed combat or acts of terrorism on a protracted but sporadic basis.
B) A political-military confrontation between contending states or groups below the level of conventional war and above the routine, peaceful competition among states. It frequently involves protracted struggles of competing principles and ideologies. Low-intensity conflict ranges from subversion to the use of armed force. It is waged by a combination of means employing political, economic, informational, and military instruments. Low-intensity conflicts are often localized, generally in the Third World, but contain regional and global security implications. (US DOD: http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/)
Lustration: A process designed to weed out public employees with close ties to organizations associated with the former repressive governments. (AAAS 1995: http://www.aaas.org/communications/media/wnwh/purge.htm)