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Over the last century, the face of warfare has significantly changed. Interstate wars are now relatively rate and conflicts have become more complex, often involving an internal and a regional/international dimensions. In this type of conflicts, the battlefield is not clearly delimitated and civilians are often caught up in the hostilities as victims or participants – a distinction that is sometimes hard to draw. Violence against the civilian population by both government and non-state forces is now the rule rather than the exception, with civilians often being…
Twenty-Five South Sudanese Professionals Complete Workshop on Project Proposal Development and Social Entrepreneurship
18 October 2017, Hiroshima, Japan – After five days of focused learning in Hiroshima, Japan, Workshop III of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) South Sudan Fellowship Programme came to a successful conclusion. The 20 Fellows, supported by five Coaches, gained practical skills on how to develop an effective project proposal, incorporating a need or problem derived from the findings of individual needs assessments undertaken in…
Consistent with UNITAR’s strategic vision of leveraging new information and communication technologies for training and outreach, UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme focuses on training, skills building and cross-fertilization of information among officials in themes relating to public finance, financial governance, trade and intellectual property using internet-based e-Learning. This training programme brings together a global community of officials from the public and private sector as well as from civil society and academia primarily through e-Learning and…
Mercury Inventory Training in Jordan, May 2016
The Minamata Convention on Mercury, ratified by 25 countries (as of 10 May 2016), is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury. It clearly underscores the need for actions to reduce further anthropogenic mercury releases; these actions should be guided by reliable information on sources of mercury emissions and releases. Therefore, developing robust, national inventories of emissions and releases is critical in identifying and addressing the issue.
As such, the…
UNITAR was invited in June 2010 to illustrate the results of UNOSAT Piracy Monitoring at the New York plenary meeting the UN Contact Group on Piracy of the Coast of Somalia.
The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia was created on January 14, 2009 pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1851. This voluntary, ad hoc international forum brings together 45 countries, 7 international organizations, and some industry groups with an interest in combating piracy. The Contact Group meets quarterly at the United Nations. Its four Working Groups meet regularly around…
Air Service Development Seminar Held By CIFAL Atlanta
21-22 April 2016, Gold Coast, Australia – CIFAL Atlanta, a UNITAR-affiliated training centre, in partnership with Airports Council International and Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, held a two-day seminar on air service development with 19 senior level airport officials from countries including Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Micronesia and Mongolia. The seminar focused on providing participants with an understanding of how to effectively approach and support airline decisions that…
Event to Build Capacities in Cooperatives
On May 17-20, 2016, CIFAL Atlanta, in collaboration with the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University (KSU), CENECOOP, Fundepos University, Cooperative of the Americas (COOP), Confederation of Cooperatives of the Caribbean and Central America and South America (CCC-CA) held a four-day learning event at Kennesaw State University on cooperative competitiveness and the digital economy. There were a total of 107 participants and presenters representing cooperatives, universities, financial…
CIFAL Atlanta Event Builds Capacities in Cooperatives
17 - 20 May 2016, Kennesaw, USA – CIFAL Atlanta, in collaboration with the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University (KSU), CENECOOP, Fundepos University, Cooperative of the Americas (COOP), Confederation of Cooperatives of the Caribbean and Central America and South America (CCC-CA) held a four-day learning event at Kennesaw State University on cooperative competitiveness and the digital economy. There were a total of 107 participants and presenters representing cooperatives, universities…
From Darfur, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Liberia, to the Middle East, Central Asia, East Timor and Haiti, the heads of the United Nations Peace Operations from around the world gathered in Switzerland 21 to 23 November for the annual Seminar for Special and Personal Representatives and Envoys of the Secretary-General organized by UNITAR in association with the UN System Staff College. The overall purpose of the Seminar is to refine UN practice and enhance the work of UN Peace Operations around the world.
The forty-seven officials…
UNITAR Organizes Workshops on Public Speaking and E-Diplomacy & Cybersecurity for Delegates from the KSA Ministry of Foreign Affairs
23 – 27 July 2018, Geneva, Switzerland – As a continuation of a long-standing collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, UNITAR successfully delivered two five-day training workshops in Geneva on Public Speaking and on E-Diplomacy & Cybersecurity. In total, the workshops were attended by 22 Saudi Arabian Diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The events took place as part of the…