Interventions by the African Union in Africa's worst conflicts must include a stronger human rights component fully integrated into all aspects of peacekeeping operations, says the Africa section of the Human Rights Watch World Report for 2004. The report notes that peacekeeping is a limited remedy which can save lives and bring about significant improvements in short-term security, but do not in themselves necessarily address the underlying structural causes of conflict, including ensuring respect for human rights, accountable government, and the rule of law. NEPAD, notes the report, proposes four key areas for building Africa’s capacity to manage all aspects of conflict, including the need to strengthen regional institutions for conflict prevention, management, and resolution; for peacekeeping; for post conflict reconstruction; and for “combating the illicit proliferation of small arms, light weapons and landmines.” "Nobody could argue that these are not urgent matters, but in the absence of a strategy to deal with deeper causes they are unlikely to be successful," notes the report, citing deeper causes such as widespread impunity not only for the worst atrocities but also for the more mundane large-scale theft of public funds; the illegal extraction and sale of Africa’s primary resources; and systematic discrimination on ethnic or regional grounds.