The Western CIS - East Europe regional process was co-ordinated by the Nonviolence International - CIS and the West CIS sub-network of the CIS NGO Working Group on Conflict Management and Prevention.

The regional process included a number of conferences, consultations, NGO missions and other activities throughout the region, which includes Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus as well as the European part of Russia (except for the North Caucasus). Its final conference that formulated the Regional Action Agenda (RAA) took place in Odessa, Ukraine, on 7-9 of March 2005 and included over 60 representatives of regional NGOs.

The process provided the civic sector organisations with a rare opportunity to submit concrete proposals on how to increase the efficiency of various UN structures in the sphere of peace-making and conflict prevention, as well as on measures to be taken in order to improve co-operation between the UN and the civil society organisations in this field.

• Key events during the regional process included:
  The first regional conference, held in Chisinau, Moldova on December 19 - 20, 2003, was attended by NGO representatives from Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Romania and Bulgaria. It formulated the main directions for the development of the regional preparatory process and defined its structure, set its thematic and sub-regional priorities.
• A thematic regional conference was held within the regional GPPAC framework in Sofia, Bulgaria, in July 2004. It was focused on the issue of cross-border cooperation, which is important for the region because of the emergence of many new state borders since 1990 and the consequences of EU expansion. It allowed formulating a number of specific recommendations concerning these issues. Also in July 2004 a NGO monitoring mission was organized to study the situation along the state border between Poland and Belarus, which recently became the EU border as well. Its report was published in the end of 2004.
• The last key event within the regional process, which lead to the formulation of the Regional Action Agenda, was held in Odessa in March 2005. It first focused on one of the regional GPPAC priorities - the need to develop alternative dispute resolution techniques and integrate them into the educational and legal system of the countries concerned. It also lead to the formulation of the Regional Action Agenda, based on the priorities and recommendations, developed during the thematic conference as well as previous GPPAC events in the region.

In addressing subregional priorities for conflict prevention and peacebuilding, the Regional Action Agenda focuses on the unresolved Transdniestria (Moldova) conflict, and the issues faced by the return of Crimean Tatars to Ukraine.

Thematically, the Regional Action Agenda highlights five areas of regional concern:

• the need to overcome regional xenophobia and intolerance
• the promotion of alternative dispute resolution practices
• developing new state-to-state relationships amongst the new states of the region
• effects of migration within the region
• developing civil society.

After participation of the GPPAC Western CIS delegation in the GPPAC Global Conference at UN Headquarters in New York in 2005, the regional network went on to develop its regional work plan based on the Regional Action Agenda.