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UNITAR Contributes to BBC WorldService Newshour Extra “What Does it Take to Make Peace?”
6 October 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - On the morning of 6 October, just before the announcement of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, BBC Newshour Extra aired the programme “What Does it Take to Make Peace?”. The host, Owen Bennett Jones, and his invitees looked at questions such as “Why is it so hard to resolve conflicts and what makes an effective peacemaker?” Several panellists provided insights from their personal experience on what contributes to make progress in peace…
11 June 2025, Geneva, Switzerland – In the framework of UN 2.0 Week, UNITAR took part in the “Behavioural Science Panel – Delivering for Impact” held on 10 June 2025, bringing together Nearly 1,000 participants to explore how evidence-based understanding of human behaviour can improve policies, programmes, and outcomes, emphasising its critical role in transforming how the United Nations operates and delivers on its mandate.The UN Secretary-General António Guterres UN 2.0 vision is rooted in a quintet of cutting-edge skills - data, digital transformation, be...
Shaping a Global Network of Institutes for Statistical Training
13 - 15 September 2017, Beijing, China – UNITAR was one of the entities invited to contribute during the Seminar on Statistical Training “Towards building sustainable statistical capacity for the implementation and review of the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs” organized by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of China in Beijing from 13 to 15 September 2017. The main objective of the event was to discuss the establishment of a Global Network of Institutes for…
Implementing the SDGs: How Engaged Young Leaders Will Make the Difference
3 August 2015, Atlanta, United States - On July 14th, CIFAL Atlanta led a training session on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the role that young professionals can play in implementing the new goals by engaging their local communities.
The session was addressed to 25 young African leaders from countries including Ghana, Mauritania, South Sudan, Uganda, South Africa, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Senegal, Liberia, Madagascar, Angola, Kenya, Mali, Swaziland, Burundi, Mauritius and…
Although these have been difficult times for the city, the UNITAR New York Office has been able to successfully transition all our meetings, trainings, and conferences to a virtual format. In fact, thanks to the added capacity of webinars and livestreams, recent events and trainings have been able to reach a wider and more diverse audience than ever before.
During the pandemic, UNITAR NY Office has developed 11 capacity building events and impacted 4,700 participants (including the SDG Learning Center in July). Thank you to the team and Ambassador’s vision, UNITAR NY Offic...
10 July 2019, New York, United States – United Nations Institute for Training and Research New York Office (UNITAR NYO) has held a morning briefing session with 15 delegates from the Egyptian Diplomatic Institute visiting New York during the High-Level Political Forum. The session was held in the conference room F in the United Nations headquarter between the head of office of UNITAR, Mr. Marco Suazo and Dr. Sameh Aboul-Enein, the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Director of the Egyptian Institute for Diplomatic Studies., During the session, Mr. Marco Suazo pro...
August 2020 - At the peak of the pandemic, UNITAR faced undoubtedly one of its most significant challenge of its history, by having to transfer the majority of its activities online. It is a well-accepted fact that diplomacy relies consequentially on informal face-to-face interaction. As Mr. El-Haddad, Director of the Division for Multilateral Diplomacy (DMD), once put it: “Diplomacy cannot be efficient and effective unless it is conducted face-to-face”. For the Division for Multilateral Diplomacy, which specializes in training diplomats, transferring face-to-fa...
Network of Diplomatic Academies and Institutes of Francophone Africa Established
31 May – 1 June, Algiers, Algeria –In collaboration with l’Institut Diplomatique et des Relation Internationales (IDRI) and with the support of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, a meeting of the directors of diplomatic academies and institutes of francophone Africa was held in Algiers, Algeria. In attendance were representatives from Senegal, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tchad, Gabon, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Ivory Coast as well as their Algerian…
5 May 2025, Geneva, Switzerland - We are pleased to announce that UNITAR has officially joined the Villars Institute and the Global Learning Council as a co-founder of the Global Learning Conference — a powerful partnership united by a shared mission to shape the future of education and lifelong learning.The inaugural Global Learning Conference will take place on 15- 16 June 2025 in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, where leading educators, policymakers, technologists and investors will convene to reimagine the future of learning and education at the critical intersection of ...
14 – 18 October 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia - Indonesia is in one of the world’s most natural disaster-prone areas and is at risk to multiple hazards, including flooding, earthquakes, landslides, tsunami, volcano, and cyclone. Throughout 2018, Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) recorded almost 2,000 natural disasters that claimed more than 4,000 lives and displaced approximately 3 million people. Disaster events occurred in 2018 also caused severe financial losses up to 3$ billion according to Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency. The Government ...