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New Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have revolutionised the context in which diplomats operate, and the way in which they seek to promote their agendas. The digital age has posed challenges, whilst creating opportunity, for national and regional agendas on the international arena. The many crises, with increasing complexity, that the international community faces only further deepens these challenges. To this respect UNITAR is proud to host the UOC - UNITAR Open Webinar on Digitalization of Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis. Our expert lectur...
22 April 2021, Hiroshima, Japan – On 25 March 2021, UNITAR Hiroshima Office, Hiroshima Television Corporation, and UNITAR Association jointly hosted a public online forum “Shaping Our Future: Together Looking to the Future of Sports and Peace 25 Years from Now” to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations and to reaffirm the central role of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the part sports can play in securing a peaceful future of humankind. Conducted in Japanese and English and moderated by HiroshimaTV newscaster Mr. Yasutomo Miya...
Tim Caughley is a non-resident fellow of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.
Tim has trained diplomats and military advisers from all over Asia since 2015 for the UNITAR Hiroshima Nuclear and Non-Proliferation (NDNP) Training Programme.
The programme gives diplomats the unique opportunity to learn in a city steeped in history and perfectly suited for training on nuclear disarmament.
Nuclear war will remain a threat in the next 20 years. Diplomats will need the skills to bring about nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
, 16 May 2023, Hiroshima, ...
UNITAR, HYPREP and RSSDA/Songhai Held Stakeholders Workshop and Presentation of Certificates to Women Cooperative Farmers
It was an event of epoch making significance on 16th of December 2020 when the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Hydrocarbon Pollution and Remediation Programme (HYPREP) and the Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA)/Songhai jointly organised a 1-day stakeholder workshop and presentation of certificates to 20 Cooperative Associations formed by women from Ogoni land, Rivers State, Nigeria who recently benef...
30 July 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - A training programmes on microfinance and financial inclusion run jointly by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Division for Prosperity and the Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) was initially aimed at a few hundred staff from banks and microfinance bodies in the Middle East and Africa. But not only did it receive many more applications than expected from the target areas, it also attracted thousands from the wider finance and development sector from 108 countries.
Globally, there are more than ...
In the aftermath of the Cancun climate change negotiations last December, UNITAR is preparing to relaunch its e-learning course on Climate Change Diplomacy, for which applications are already being received and places are being filled-up fast! The course is due to start on the February 21st and will run for a duration of eight weeks, providing professional training for diplomats, negotiators and other high-level officials prior to the climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, later this year.
Climate Change is one of the greatest challenges of our time.…
Monday 28 February 2011, 15:00 – 16:30, Room XVI of the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st Century. These challenges pose both risks and opportunities for global societies. In order to mitigate these risks and maximise the respective opportunities, the UN climate change negotiations have become a crucial fora for international Parties to devise creative and viable solutions which are effective on a global scale. Essentially all governments must ensure that their greenhouse gas emissions…
The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) - which is the main forum for coordination, policy development and decision-making between key UN and non-UN humanitarian partners - and UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme successfully concluded the first online course on information management. Forty-four (44) professionals from key UN and non-UN agencies successfully completed this course which aimed at improving their knowledge of how information management can enhance humanitarian action, thereby contributing to improved decision-making in the inter-agency…
3 November 2011, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - UNDP and UNITAR co-organized the High-Level Seminar on Preventive Approaches in the African Peace and Security Architecture held on 3 November 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. APSA, expecting its tenth anniversary in 2012, incorporates the latest principles of international peace and security. It provides an important framework for action for various actors striving for and contributing to sustainable peace on the African continent.
A distinguished panel addressed the gathering. The AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, H.E. Mr.…
January 2011, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP), together with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), organises a High Level Panel discussion on cybersecurity and cybercrime at the Palais des Nations, Room XII, on 31 January 2012 from 15:00 to 17:30.
The panel aims to update members of the Permanent Missions accredited to the United Nations Office at Geneva on the current situation and challenges with regard to cybersecurity and cybercrime and to provide a platform to…