"prevent confrontation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever there is a situation in which two people or groups of people are in conflict and you want to suggest that they avoid it. For example: "We should work together to prevent confrontation between our two nations."
In her visit, Secretary Clinton should spotlight these tensions and offer reassurance that the West will work actively to prevent confrontation and conflict.
He also tried to prevent confrontation over plans to fast-track EU criminal justice legislation into British law, amid fears that whole tranches of EU criminal law would reach the statute book without proper debate.
If they're here to watch us, fine, at least they're here". The police are indeed on hand in part "to prevent confrontation, so the Muslims aren't out there on their own," Raiford said.
In addition, they said, the European initiative called for intensified diplomatic contacts with Russia, now projecting a sense of renewed power and prominence on the world stage, to prevent confrontation with the United States and Europe.
I spent them scared, trying to prevent confrontation.
In this security-conscious era, shouldn't basketball players have the same protections to prevent confrontations like this one?
Analysts say Mr. Hollande needs to give unions more of an incentive to work with management to prevent confrontations that can lead businesses to consider moving work toward other cost-competitive destinations.
After a Cleveland police officer was shot to death in 2000 trying to arrest a man wanted for a parole violation, Mr. Elliott came up with the program as a way to prevent confrontations between fugitives and the police.
The Energy Department, which operates the Savannah River Site, a nuclear processing and disposal complex, said it hoped to continue discussing the issue with South Carolina officials to prevent confrontations at the border.
By the end of the Putnam study, the researchers hope to have pinpointed at least a few popular coyote hangouts so they can go to those areas and educate the residents on ways to prevent confrontations, said Susan Elbin, a senior Wildlife Trust scientist who is also leading the project.
As more police are equipped with cameras on their bodies to capture footage of interactions with the public, a group of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been given permission to study video and audio streams from one police department to learn how best to prevent confrontations from escalating.
