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6 and 10 June 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. UNITAR Executive Director, Carlos Lopes, visiting Singapore and Malaysia next week for a series of high-level meetings, was invited to deliver public lectures on challenges to multilateralism by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore) on 6 June and Malaysian Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations on 10 June.
The lectures will discuss a qualitative change in international order over the past two decades and a new discourse that has gained prominence in the international relations theory and that emphasizes…
With the aim of addressing the growing challenge of money laundering and financing of terrorism, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) will conduct from October 3 to November 25, 2011 a new online course on Combating Money Laundering in partnership with Agence pour la Coopération et le Développement -Banques Populaires (ABPCD).
This course, which is entitled « Combating Money Laundering », was developped specifically to respond to the training needs of senior and middle level finance-sector professionals, with a special emphasis on private and…
This September 4 2010, UNITAR became the newest UN institution to become a member of UN Water during the coordinating platform’s thirteenth meeting. Joining the platform will provide UNITAR with the opportunity to coordinate its capacity development, research and training activities on water and sanitation with other UN institutions as well as add value to the platform in a number of ways.
Given UNITAR’s expertise in knowledge management and capacity building it will especially collaborate with two of the UN Water’s programmes the UN Water Decade Programme on…
On 8 September, 2010, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Program (PTP) and Geneva Peacekeeping Platform (GPP) held a roundtable discussion on peacekeeping capacity and development in Africa during its 2nd annual Advisory Board Session. Peacekeeping in Africa has grown dramatically over the last five years, with the continent hosting more peacekeepers than any other region. With increased demand for peace operations worldwide, attention has focused on the ability of the UN and African organizations to respond to crises and to manage…
In the wake of the past eLearning Africa 2009 Conference (Dakar on May 27-29, 2009), UNITAR takes stock of past achievements in reaching out African participants through technologically intensive learning techniques such as e-Learning.
The percentage of African participants is quite significant. Despite logistical and technical difficulties, numbers show that e-learning is on an ascending trend as an educational means in Africa. UNITAR has been able to take measures of this growth.
According to 2008 internal statistics, the percentage of African participants among…
15 April 2024, New York, USA - UNITAR and Columbia Law School continued the spring 2024 iteration of their longstanding partnership programme, The Columbia University Law School Series, with the last session of the season titled “Mediation Skills Training”.
UNITAR Programme Coordinator, Mr. Nyle Pierre opened remarks on behalf of Mr. Marco Suazo, Head of the New York Office, talking about the importance of mediation skills in multiple fields of expertise, emphasizing that, conflict happens everywhere, and mediating is a crucial skill in resolving confli...
A recent feature on the UN SDG:Learn platform now offers users a way to customize their learning experience!
A self-assessment provides an outlook on the users’ current knowledge and skills in regards to eight key competencies crucial to achieving the SDGs.
Defined by UNESCO, these cross-cutting competencies cover systems thinking, anticipatory, normative, strategic, collaboration, critical thinking, self-awareness and integrated problem-solving competencies. Their reach and intricacy make them extremely relevant in complex problem-solving processes. Moreover, they can b...
After the record-breaking pace of vaccine and development and deployment, one of the pressing challenges the world faces today is linked to the design of effective communication strategies that promote the adoption of protective behaviors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccination.In an effort to assist local and national governments, businesses and key stakeholders to develop effective COVID-19 communication strategies focused on promoting protective behavior and maximum uptake of the new COVID-19 vaccines that are now coming on stream, UNITAR is pleased to pres...
UNITAR’s Road Safety Global Training Initiative successfully launched the Learning App on Management Practices for Safer Roads, with the aim of providing in-hand practical solutions, participatory contributions from different stakeholders including the private sector, and results-based interventions.
The Learning App is based on the Management Practices for Safer Roads Toolkit, featuring projects and local interventions in cities in Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, India, Mexico and South Africa. This Toolkit, available now on mobile de...
10 February 2020, New York, USA – This year, UNITAR Office in New York, the Permanent Mission of Switzerland, and the United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNDESA) will present 5-module “Realizing the Future We Want – Training series in preparation for the General Assembly’s 2020 Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR) of the operational activities for development of the United Nations system” from March to September 2020.
UNITAR Office in New York has previously organized the QCPR trainings in 2012 and 2016. The trainings were catered for the ...