With regard to risks, experience teaches three capital lessons that are pertinent to this type of process: · Absence of collaboration, which is a failure risk;. · Inadequate communication and information on the Project, with the attendant risk of reducing the number and quality of participants and, in particular, the commitment of partners · Difficulty in mobilising the Civil Society around the Project. Taking these three lessons into consideration, we would make three ecommendations: · Setting up a united organisational team that will be dedicated, open to collaboration from all well-meaning quarters · Regularly providing the highest authorities of the State with progress reports on the process and sharing key subjects and issues pertaining to the Project with all the internal stakeholders · Maintaining a good, free and direct dialogue with the technical and financial partners, within a coordination and consultation framework. Finally, it should be underlined that, despite the manifestation of political will, there is still the risk of an ineffective appropriation of the Conference's results. In fact, certain stakeholders may resist required changes that the new peace and security approach implies. To minimize such a risk, the Ministry should organise, shortly after the Conference, regional restitution seminars in order to validate the results. That would be another way of demonstrating to the populations that their view points matter, their aspirations are taken into consideration, their support is required and their involvement in the implementation of the Conference's recommendations is necessary for the success of the new Security Policy. 114