PeacekeepingTraining

Programme

The UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP) aims to contribute to the effectiveness of peace operations, by means of improving the preparedness of civilian, military and police personnel interested in being deployed in field missions.

www.unitar.org/ptp

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Target AudienceTraining Methodology

Peacekeeping Training Programme

Peacekeeping Training Programme

Civilian staff from international and regional organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations, national departments, as well as academics, researchers and students. Military personnel from national and regional contingents having different ranks and functions. Police personnel eager to serve in peacekeeping and peace support operations.

The courses build on the existing skills and expertise of participants by showing them how these can be applied in the complex context of peace operations and by providing them with the executive knowledge and additional personal skills they would require. Participants are expected to have no prior, or limited, experience in peace operations and to come from a vast and diverse demographic and professional range.

Courses are neither specialized for a particular gender or age group, nor to specific background experience and education. For advanced courses, it is highly advisable that participants have an overall understanding of the structure, components and functioning of a peace operation.

Courses are delivered in a variety of formats:• Face-to-face• E-learning• Blended approach.

The delivery format of all courses devotes particular attention to:• Interactivity: The courses involve participants ac-

tively;• Participation: The courses make the group a ‘learn-

ing body’ and apply a ‘learning-by-doing’ approach that allows participants to acquire the necessary competences to replicate the training;

• Links with practical examples: The courses apply theories to concrete situations, either through case studies, role plays, and exercises, or through the analysis of specific processes within the group;

• Links with real experiences: The courses take advan-tage of the experience, knowledge and personal resources of the participants.

Enhancing Capacity, Building Peace. The UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP) aims to contribute to the effectiveness of peace operations, by means of improving the preparedness of civilian, military and police personnel interested in being deployed in field missions.

PTP provides quality training opportunities made up of basic courses and more specialized advanced courses. While basic courses are designed to provide an overview of basic elements, advanced courses are intended to address specific topics in more detail.

The topics included in the courses are identified following an assessment of training needs among beneficiaries and a review of courses available at major training institutions. They also reflect trends and issues related to relevant UN Resolutions.

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Peacekeeping Training Programme Courses for 2011

Basic Courses: The basic courses are designed to provide an introduction to peace operations and major related issues.

In order to ensure the best possible outreach, the courses are delivered primarily through e-learning. Blended approaches, i.e. a combination of on-line learning with face-to-face segments, are also envisaged.

• Introduction to Peace operations• Understanding conflict and conflict

Analysis• Mission Preparedness: the Psycho-social

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Advanced Courses:Advanced courses are designed to provide specialized preparation to military, police, and civilian personnel eager to serve in peace operations. Advanced courses are delivered mainly through blended methodologies that envisage both e-learning and face-to-face segments.

• human security in the Practice of Peace Operations

• Natural Resource Management in Post-conflict countries

• Protection of civilians in Peace operations• Application of satellite Imagery in Peace

Operations• Leadership, Team Work and Team Man-

agement in Peace Operations• Project cycle Management• Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding• Mission Planning, Implementation and

Management• gender and Leadership in Peacebuilding• communications in Peace operations• Training of Trainers

Our Partners

PTP positions itself to make a significant contribution towards addressing the emerging needs for capacity development of beneficiaries with Member states and the United Nations system. To this end, coordination and collaboration with strategic partners is a key component to the further development, continual improvement, and constant innovation of all UNITAR activities.

PTP has developed cooperation with several strategic partners in line with its objective to provide high quality, executive training, and to increase the efficiency of the programme’s activities.

United Nations• United Nations Department of Peacekeeping operations (DPKo)• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Regional organizations• African Union

Non-governmental organizations• International Institute for sustainable Development (switzerland)• geneva centre for Democratic control of Armed Forces (switzerland)• geneva centre for security Policy (switzerland)• Nonviolent Peaceforce (United states)• Bonn International centre for conversion (germany)• 4change (Italy)

Universities/Academic Institutes/Think Tanks• The open University Worldwide, UK (United Kingdom)• University of gothenburg (sweden)• King’s college London (UK)

Training Institutes• International Training Programme for conflict Management at the scuola

superiore sant’Anna (Italy)• United service Institution of India (India) • crisis Management centre (Finland)• International Military Assistance Training Team (sierra Leone)• Angie Brooks International center (Liberia)• sADc Regional Peacekeeping Training centre (Zimbabwe)• The Nelson Mandela centre for Peace and conflict Resolution (India)• The Rwandan Peace Academy (Rwanda)• Nigerian Defence Academy (Nigeria)• The cairo Regional center for Training on conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping

in Africa (Egypt)• King’s college African Leadership centre (Kenya)• Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping training centre (ghana)

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Contact Us

Peacekeeping Training ProgrammeUnited Nations Institute for Training and research (UNITar)Palais des Nations, Ch-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland

email: ptp@unitar.orgTel: +41.22.917.8724Fax: +41.22.917.8993Website: www.unitar.org/ptp

Advisory Board

To ensure the quality of our products and services, the UNITAR PTP Advisory Board, composed of six eminent specialists and practitioners, assists the UNITAR PTP in its strategic vision. The Advisory Board provides technical and critical analysis of the activities of the UNITAR PTP to ensure the respect of quality standards in compliance with the UNITAR mandate and UN guidelines.

The Advisory Board members:

Jean-Marie Guéhenno: chairperson, Former United Nations Under-secretary-general for Peacekeeping operations

Senator, General Romeo Dallaire: Former commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda

Lt. General Obiakor: Former Force commander of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and Former U.N. Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations

HE Minister Zainab Bangura: sierra Leone, Minister of health and sanitation

Lt. General Satish Nambiar: Former Force commander and head of Mission UN Protection Force in Yugoslavia

Ms Margareta Wahlström: UN Assistant-secretary-general for Disaster Risk Reduction and special Representative of the secretary-general for the implementation of the hyogo Framework for Action IsDR secretariat.