The Multilateral Diplomacy Programme is pleased to announce the following Core Diplomatic Training (CDT) activities in Geneva for the fall of 2010:

The Multilateral Diplomacy Programme will be offering a new set of e-Learning courses in the fall of 2010, including: Multilateral Conferences and Diplomacy; Bilateral and Multilateral Negotiation; United Nations Protocol; Chairing Meetings and International Conferences, Mediation Skills and much more!
Please see the list of e-Learning courses for more information.

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research is pleased to announce a French-Language Workshop on Effective Negotiation in Multilateral Conferences to be held on 7 and 8 September at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The workshop, co-organized with the Olof Palme Memorial Fund, is part of the 2010 Negotiation Series “Towards levelling the playing field”.

From July 12-16, in Barcelona, Spain. UNITAR and UN-HABITAT came together with the other members of the Police Platform on Urban Development (PPUD) to offer the initiative’s first training seminar since its launch in November 2009. The first training seminar, titled “Improving the Policing Public Events in Urban Spaces, focused on training participants from various African countries, such as Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Nigeria.

In the framework of their collaboration aiming to jointly develop a series of learning programmes in the field of knowledge management, UNITAR and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are developing the course Innovative Collaboration for Develo

Through a partnership agreement signed with UNITAR, Sulá Batsú Cooperative will be cooperating with the Institute on the delivery of the course Innovative Collaboration for Development , the first e-Learning course implemented by U

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research is pleased to announce a workshop on Environmental Negotiations and Climate Change Diplomacy to be held from 26- 27 August at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The workshop, co-organized with the Olof Palme Memorial Fund, is part of the 2010 Negotiation Series “Towards levelling the playing field”.

In an effort to complement the analysis of very-high resolution imagery with data acquired in the field and in-situ mapping, UNOSAT and French NGO ACTED (Agence de Cooperation Technique et Developpement) have established a specific collaboration agreement for the generation of advanced geographic information during and immediately after the crisis. The agreement, which comes after the two organisations started working separately but in consultation over the main areas affected by the incidents of the recent weeks, identifies a few specific areas of cooperation and the relevant output.