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CIFAL Jeju Engages Youth from South Korea as Partners in the Implementation of the SDGs
24 August 2016, Jeju, Republic of Korea – CIFAL Jeju jointly with the Jeju Special Self Governing Province, Global Inner Peace, and Jeju National University hosted a three day youth workshop titled "Nature, Culture and the Youth" gathering 43 students from 25 universities from the Republic of Korea.
The event took place from 22 to 24 August 2016 at Jeju Stone Park and South East areas of Jeju island, serving as a platform to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to…
CIFAL Atlanta Helps Host Participants of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative
21 March 2016, Georgia, United States - From 1 February to 4 March 2016, CIFAL Atlanta, in partnership with Kennesaw State University (KSU), welcomed 21 young leaders from Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam as part of the U.S. State Department’s Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI). Their four-week academic residency was spent on the KSU campus, where the participants developed a deeper understanding of human and…
Human Rights, Environmental Sustainability, Post-2015 Development, and the Future Climate Regime
Yale University, 5-7 September 2014
The 2014 Conference on Human Rights, Environmental Sustainability, Post-2015 Development Agenda, and the Future Climate Regime took place on 5-7 September 2014 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. The Conference was organized by Yale University and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United National Development Programme (UNDP),…
CIFAL Curitiba and the FIEP System Increasing Awareness About Road Safety
24 September 2018, Curitiba, Brazil - During the month of August, the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Curitiba (CIFAL Curitiba) and the Federation of Industries of the State of Parana (FIEP) System hosted 4 Road Shows at the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), Autonomous University Center of Brazil (UniBrasil), FAE Bom Jesus, and University of the State of Paraná.
The Road Show is an educational programme that aims to raise awareness among…
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…
Vienna’s Diplomatic Community Builds the Negotiation and Leadership Capacities
4-5 May 2015, Vienna, Austria - Authority is not enough to get things done. Both negotiators and leaders must learn to empower and motivate their teams and lead in situations where they may not have any formal authority. They must know which decisions are the right ones and how to make them. Key to becoming an effective negotiator is the ability to listen. When building their vision and goals, negotiators must create a process that includes all stakeholders, build coalitions and…
CIFAL Flanders Hosts SDGs Learning Seminar
28 September 2018, Antwerp, Belgium – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Flanders (CIFAL Flanders) in partnership with the University of Antwerp hosted the “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Learning Seminar”, bringing multi-stakeholders together for capacity building on the SDGs, as well as engaging in roundtable discussions to link theory to practice. This seminar features speakers and experts from academia and other sectors on key topics related to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for…
In late June, on the occasion of the UNITAR Board of Trustees meeting in Beijing, UNITAR Executive Director Carlos Lopes and UNITAR staff undertook a series of key meetings with a wide variety of senior officials in the Chinese government and academia. The meetings were aimed at strengthening the already close cooperation between UNITAR and China.
Mr. Lopes met with the Vice-Minister Li Ganjie of the Ministry of Environmental Protection on 25 June 2010. The Vice-Minister and Mr. Lopes recounted the long history of close cooperation between MEP and UNITAR in the area of…
Theme: World Heritage Serial Nominations and the Vital Role of Comparative Analysis
Date: 22 - 26 April 2013
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
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2012 Workshop Report
2013 Call for Applications Document
The 2013 Workshop of this successful UNITAR Series, entitled World Heritage Serial Nominations and the Vital Role of Comparative Analysis, examines in detail the expectations and requirements needed to effectively address this essential part of World Heritage nominations. The comparative analysis helps demonstrate there is scope in the World Heritage…
UNOSAT Announces 5th Edition of its Master Training in GIS
9 December 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark – UNOSAT announced in Copenhagen that it will offer in 2015 the 5th edition of its master-level training course Geo-Information in Disaster Situations. The announcement came on the occasion of the annual lecture done by UNOSAT at the University of Copenhagen. Both the lecture and the course are part of the popular Master of Disaster Management Programme of the University.
UNOSAT will host the 5th edition of this celebrated course in Geneva from 13 to 30 April, 2015. The course…