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The traditional view of a peacekeeping mission is that missions’ mandates are carried out by the military, so we expected to learn how we as civilians could contribute to it and what our organisation could do in collaboration with the UN in the domain of peacekeeping and peacebuilding.
says Ingy Hamdy, Head of Social Media at the League of Arab States (LAS), about her expectations of UNITAR’s intensive two-year training programme. Ingy is one of twenty five LAS Task Force members that took part in UNITAR’s tailor-made online and face-to-face trainings, which unfold...
19-21 November 2018, Brussels, Belgium – UNITAR hosted the Annual Meeting of its Network of Affiliated International Training Centres for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Brussels and in Antwerp, Belgium. The Directors of 15 CIFAL Centres gathered for three days to review its performance in 2018, discuss opportunities for collaboration, exchange knowledge and expertise, and to develop the training calendar for 2019.
The Annual Meeting also served to celebrate the 15-year anniversary of the CIFAL Global Network, which took place at the Flemish Parliament with s...
19 August 2021, Hiroshima, Japan – UNITAR is pleased to announce that its Division for Prosperity and Japanese sporting goods company SSK Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance the use of sports as a medium of peace and understanding. SSK created a soccer jersey donning the UNITAR logo, and the jerseys were worn by the soccer players during the “Peace Match” held in Hiroshima on 7 August 2021.
The Hiroshima Football Association 2021 Balcom BMW Peace Match is an annual event held in Hiroshima to commemorate the lives lost and the destruc...
17 October 2018, Kabul, Afghanistan - The United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) Hiroshima Office, with the support of the Government and People of Japan, launched this week the UNITAR Women’s Leadership Programme for Afghanistan: Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Kabul, Afghanistan. The programme builds upon the experiences and lessons learned from UNITAR Hiroshima’s engagement with Afghanistan over the past 15 years. Focusing on empowering women and fostering inclusive and effective governance in Afghanistan, the training progr...
Nearly 30 officials and professionals from 11 Pacific small island countries embarked on a 12-day study tour in Japan as part of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) “Leave No One Behind: Rapid Response to Climate Crises through Early Warning Systems” training programme.The study tour aims to equip the participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively disseminate, monitor, analyse and respond to early warning signals for climate hazards and extreme weather events through expert-led lectures, field visits and group assignment...
UNITAR, the Institute for Industrial Policy Studies (IPS), and the Taylor Institute at Franklin University Switzerland (FUS), collaborate on National Competitiveness Report: Two rankings for each nation with low-cost strategy and differentiation strategy. The results of the IPS National Competitiveness Report were released on October 28, 2021, in a public conference of National Competitiveness organised by IPS and FUS, and co-hosted by UNITAR. UNITAR will be involved in fully contributing to the 2022 Report., Currently, there are three institutions that announce&n...
The UNITAR Operational Satellite Training Programme (UNOSAT) contributes to human security, peace and socio-economic development by providing integrated satellite-based solutions for governments as well as relief and development organizations within and outside the UN system. As part of its capacity development activities, a two-week training programme took place in Bhutan, with support from the State of Qatar. With funding through the newly-established Strategic Framework Fund, the programme aimed to enhance the use of geospatial technologies for evidence-based decision ma...
19 December 2017, Geneva, Switzerland – Following the endorsement of the Declaration on Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment on 12 December, 2017 at the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires, UNITAR’s Women Leadership Programme hosted the first of a 5-part high-level seminar series. The series of events is dedicated to opening the discussion on the actions to undertake for a more inclusive participation of women in trade, focusing on key areas where members can collaborate to make their policies more gender-responsive.
The first conference of the cycle re...
Nobel Prize winners Martti Ahtisaari and José Ramos-Horta on prerequisites for peace
Geneva, 14 November 2013. Nobel Prizes winners Martti Ahtisaari of Finland (2008) and José Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste (1996) shared their recipes for peace while participating yesterday in the 8th edition of the UNOG-UNITAR Geneva Lecture Series. The event was an opportunity for a Geneva-based audience to learn from the guest speakers’ knowledge rooted in diverse personal experiences but largely complementary in nature. It featured short lectures by the two peacemakers followed by a debate...
新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大とともに、虚偽の情報やデマが氾濫し、世界各国の人々の生活に影響を与えています。嘘や誤情報の拡散が健康と命を守るための政策や個人の選択に致命的な打撃を与え混乱をもたらし、インフォデミックーInfodemic）（「インフォーメーション（情報）」＋「エピデミック（流行）」）の時代に突入しています。
2020年11月、国連ユニタールの多国間外交局と持続可能な繁栄局は、国際連合教育科学文化機関（ユネスコ）の情報コミュニケーション局とともに、インフォデミックに立ち向かうためモバイル環境で学ぶことができるeラーニングコースを立ち上げました。偽情報の氾濫に対するあなたのリテラシーのレベルを楽しみながらテストし、対応策を学ぶことができます。このコースは、ユネスコの「インフォデミック－新型コロナウイルスに関する虚偽情報を読み解く」と「インフォデミック－新型コロナウイルスの虚偽情報に関する対処法の分析」（https://en.unesco.org/covid19/disinfodemic）に基づいて実施されます。
本コースでは対話型のマイクロラーニング学習方法を使用し、1回の授業は5～10分間の短時間で区切られているため、隙間時間を利用して学ぶことができます。9つのタイプの新型コロナウイルスに関する虚偽情報、4つのフォーマットモード...