UNITAR’s Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP) is holding a five day training course on Human Security in the Practice of Peace Operations in Kuopio, Finland. The course is held in collaboration with Crisis Management Centre, and is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.

 

The concept of human security first appeared as a post-Cold War attempt to transform the traditional understanding of security - framed in terms of the security of the territory from external military aggression and of the protection of national interests in foreign policy. Stemming from the acknowledgement of the complex character of contemporary violence, human security focuses on the protection of the individual lives and recognizes that threats to human security can arise in the context and from sources other than the military.

 

In recognition of the growing importance of human security, the PTP and Crisis Management Centre course presents the concept of human security in terms of an organizing standard and introduces four operational principles that inform the planning, implementation and evaluation of human security-oriented operations in conflict and post-conflict.

 

At the end of the course, participants are expected to understand the notion of human security in terms of an organizing standard, identify the four principle that are associated with human security, indicate the 'must-to' associated to each assumption, apply the four principles to the planning, implementation and evaluation of operations.

 

The course is held from February 15 to February 19, 2010.

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