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UNITAR is pleased to announce that registration is now open for its e-Learning course on the Bilateral and Multilateral Negotiation, due to start on 21st February, 2011. Following the success of this course last year, UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme is currently developing more online courses in French language which will focus on the following topics: United Nations Protocol, Multilateral Conferences and Diplomacy, Chairing International Meetings and Climate Change Diplomacy. Theses courses initially developed and implemented in English will be translated into…
28 January 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2003) and a second term member of the Institute’s Board of Trustees gave a special lecture on human rights to the UNITAR staff at the Palais des Nations. The lecture was in connection with her participation in the 50th session of the Board of Trustees (BOT) which takes place on the 31 January and 1 February 2011.
The UNITAR staff members had a unique and welcomed opportunity to listen to and interact with a world-recognized leader on human rights. Speaking in her…
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR’s) Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP) organized an interactive two half days workshop on Mediation and Consensus Building for Efficient Diplomacy on 9 and 10 February in Geneva. The seven diplomats and one UN staff member that participated in this workshop were very satisfied with the skills they learnt and appreciated the interactive format of the workshop that combined theory with practice in the form of simulation exercises.
The skills the participants learned included how to negotiate and mediate…
On Monday 25 January, members of the diplomatic community and government officials who will represent their country at United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia’s (ESCWA) 4th Meeting of the Technical Committee, which will be held 26 – 27 January, were given the opportunity to attend a preparation workshop on Conference Diplomacy, jointly organized by UNITAR and ESCWA. The training was led by UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme and was attended by 25 participants from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Sudan, Syria, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon,…
Training future negotiators and mediators
The 17th UNITAR-IPI Fellowship Programme in Peacemaking and Preventive Diplomacy concludes in Norway
Conflict prevention, as one of the major obligations under the Charter of the United Nations, requires Member States and the UN Secretariat to develop and nurture the necessary talent and knowledge in their diplomats and staff to keep up with international best practices and to equip them with the latest conflict resolution skills.
During the two-week UNITAR-IPI Fellowship Programme in…
40 journalists representing media houses from across Africa participated in a three day training workshop that sought to improve their reporting on climate change issues in Africa and as a pre event to the seventh African Development Forum (ADF) whose main theme this year will address climate change and sustainable development in Africa.
The training “Getting it right : reporting climate change for sustainable development in Africa” was made possible through the collaboration and partnership of UNITAR, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) …
UNITAR has issued the 2012 Guidance Document for “Preparing a National Profile to Assess Infrastructure and Capacity Needs for Chemicals Management”. This guidance document, initially issued in 1996 and now revised as a second edition, has been developed to assist countries in preparing National Profiles through a process which involves all interested parties at the country level.
A National Profile:
can become an official national reference document, providing a clear picture of the national legal, institutional, administrative, and technical infrastructure for…
December 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - In the framework of their collaboration aiming to jointly develop a series of learning programmes in the field of knowledge management, UNITAR and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have developed the course Innovative Collaboration for Development (ICfD), an e-learning course on Web 2.0 tools for development.
The overall goal of the course is to empower development professionals to recognize the potential of social media and to make innovative use of these tools to improve the efficiency, effectiveness…
The Institute of Diplomatic Studies of Saudi Arabia requested that UNITAR develop a seminar on International Crisis Management for officers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia.
In the seminar, which started last week in Geneva, Switzerland, UNITAR is partnering with staff from International Telecommunication Union (ITU), International Labour Organization (ILO), UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(OCHA), UN Development Programme (UNDP), UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), World…
1,400 participants Joined CIFAL Philippines’ Webinar on Migration and Development Challenges Faced in Asia
21 April 2017, Quezon City, Philippines – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Philippines, in partnership with Metropolis Asia succesfully hosted a webinar on the critical issues on migration and development faced by the region. Over 1,400 participated in the webinar to learn about the many issues that make up the migration research agenda in Asia.
During the webinar, panelists from four Metropolis Asia member countries…