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1 September 2023, New York, USA – UNITAR office in New York together with the Permanent Missions of Ecuador, Finland, and Malaysia held the “Transition Workshop” to support the incoming team of the Office of the President of the General Assembly (OPGA). This marks the third iteration of this feature that aims to support this crucial transition.
UNITAR facilitated an afternoon that brought together former, current, and incoming members of the OPGA to share past experiences, advice, and best practices in order to ensure a smooth transition and success for the upcoming year. ...
UNITAR through its Division for People and its CIFAL Global Network, UNDESA, UNFPA, IOM, UNWOMEN, UNHCR, OHCHR, ITU, ILO, and WHO with its Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities, together with the Group of Friends of the Human Rights of Older Persons -conformed by States, represented by their Permanent Missions to the United Nations in Geneva,- the Global Initiative on Ageing Foundation (GIA), the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuses, the International Longevity Centre; the NGO Committee on Ageing Geneva, and the Harvard Law School Projec...
On 29 June 2025, twenty-four (24) youth in high schools from Hiroshima prefecture gathered at the UNITAR Hiroshima Office for the launch of the 2025 “UNITAR Hiroshima Youth Ambassador Programme: Leaders for a New Era”.Participants took part in lectures covering a broad range of topics, including the current global landscape surrounding peace, human rights, and international law, and the status of nuclear disarmament and global efforts toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.This training programme, running from 29 June to 24 August 2025, aims to strengthen youth leadership ...
On 13 April 2010, the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between UNITAR and the Nonviolent Peaceforce took place at UNITAR’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
The agreement was signed by Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Director of UNITAR and Mr. Tim Wallis, Executive Director of the Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, administrative offices in Minneapolis, USA, peace workers in conflict zones, and includes over 65 Member Organizations.
Initiated in 1999 at The Hague Appeal for Peace, the Nonviolent Peaceforce was constituted…
“The seminar opened our eyes and minds to the world of the UN and multilateral diplomacy."
At the request of and in cooperation with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP) implemented two training activities in Jerusalem from 6-10 June 2010. The activities focused on strengthening the participants’ skills in the field of multilateral negotiations and conference diplomacy through a practice-oriented and interactive training methodology. One of the workshops was a component of the Ministry’s training curriculum on…
UNITAR was honoured recently to take part in the International Conference on Peace from Disasters: Indigenous initiatives across communities, countries and continents. The conference was held in Hiroshima, Japan from 18 to 19 September and was hosted by the Hiroshima University Partnership Project for Peacebuilding and Capacity Development and the Tokyo University Global COE Program.
Over the course of the conference various specialists from around the globe discussed the policy and process foci required for the effective reconstruction of communities affected by…
UNITAR concludes Road Safety Workshop for Local Government Officials in Asia Pacific
8 June 2017, Jeju, Republic of Korea – As part of a collaborative agreement with Diageo, UNITAR delivered its third road safety capacity building workshop scheduled for 2017. The three-day workshop “Strengthening Road Safety in Cities: Asia Pacific” took place in Jeju, Republic of Korea from 31 May to 2 June, briging together representatives from local governments, academia and the private sector.
The countries represented at the workshop included Cambodia, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar,…
Applications Open for World Heritage Nominations Training Workshop
August 2017, Hiroshima, Japan - Are you involved with a World Heritage nomination or site? Do you want to gain a deep understanding of the nomination process? The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the call for applications for the 14th annual workshop of its World Heritage Nominations Training Series, with a deadline of 15 September 2017. The workshop will take place from 27 November to 1 December 2017 in Hiroshima Japan.
Featuring leading experts from…
New e-Learning course on Water Diplomacy! APPLY NOW!
Introduction to Water Diplomacy (6 November to 3 December 2017)
More than ever before, the pressure on our freshwater resources is increasing globally and with it the legitimate concern that tensions will rise between states which have no choice but to secure their aqueous requirements for their own development and growth. Beyond its apparent potential for conflict, water bears a strong cooperation potential which has yet to be understood and empowered. Water is and will remain at the heart of international peace and…
Executive Director of Kofi Annan Foundation and Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mr. Alan Doss is Senior Political Advisor at the Kofi Annan Foundation. He is Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He spent his entire professional life in the service of the United Nations working on peacekeeping, development and humanitarian assignments in Africa, Asia and Europe as well as at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
He was appointed, in 2007, by…