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To all Permanent / Observer Missions accredited to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Vienna
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the following training activities for members of Permanent / Observer Missions at Geneva (UNOG) and Vienna (UNOV), respectively:
Workshop on Negotiation Strategies and Techniques, in English
Date: 4 and 5 February 2010
Venue: International Environment House 1, Geneva
Workshop on Negotiation Strategies and Techniques, in English
Date: 11 and 12 February 2010
Venue: Vienna International…
Four months after arriving in Geneva, in January 2015, Mr. Poem Mudyawbikwa was called into his Ambassador’s office and asked if he would be willing to attend a training course on Negotiation Skills and Techniques from UNITAR.
“Initially,” he recalled, “I was skeptical of what I might learn at the workshop because at that time I had already been working as a negotiator in business, and in fact I had written articles about negotiating.” After some research into UNITAR’s Diplomatic Training…
8 August 2011, Geneva, Switzerland - Researchers at CERN have begun today public testing of a new version of the popular volunteer computing project LHC@home. This version allows volunteers to participate for the first time in simulating high-energy collisions of protons in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), thus actively help physicists in the search for new fundamental particles. This is one example of a series of projects and events organized by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, a partnership between CERN, UNITAR/UNOSAT and the University of Geneva, to promote volunteer…
Since the inception of the monitoring by the UNOSAT Programme of piracy activity off the coasts of Somalia, the interest of international organizations and media has continued to grow. Today a number of maritime offices and international organisations, and national agencies, use the updated maps prepared by UNOSAT as reference material. These maps document the history of recent attacks perpetrated by pirates and their exact geographic locations, allowing to establish trends in specific areas of the Somali coastline and also to identify areas in which incidents have a…
On 10 February 2024, UNITAR and UNITAR Association hosted the public forum “Nuclear Disarmament and Sustainable Peace” at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
The panellists discussed their perspectives on nuclear disarmament, current geopolitical disputes and sustainable peace without nuclear weapons.
The forum was joined by 18 diplomats and government officials from 13 countries, who were in Hiroshima for the UNITAR Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (NDNP) Training Programme.
, 25 April 2024, Hiroshima, Japan – On 10 February 2024, the UNITAR Hiroshima Office ...
September 4, 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is delighted to announce that its “Art for Peace” Collection was selected as a finalist at the SDG Digital GameChangers Award, organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in the “Peace” Category.
The process invited submissions from the Youth, Government, Private sector, Civil society, International Organizations and UN Agencies, as well as from Academia and the Technical community, and received over 450 solutions.
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9-10 July, Antwerp, Belgium – With a third of the world’s population migrating from villages to cities in the 21st Century, local leaders must be at the forefront of incorporating diversity into all aspects of city planning. As part of its work in the area of human mobility, UNITAR is hosting its first Expert Meeting in the City of Antwerp to define the parameters of its novel “Learning Platform on Human Mobility: Capacity Development for Local Leaders”.
A global, face2face training platform for local leaders, UNITAR’s Learning Platform on Human Mobility will broach…
CIFAL Argentina Concludes Workshop on Social-Environmental Conflicts
30 - 31 October 2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina - The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Argentina (CIFAL Argentina) hosted the Social-Environmental Conflicts workshop from a community transparency system perspective. The main objective of this event was to strengthen capacities and relationships between the government, private sector and community to facilitate dialogue on social and environmental issues.
This event is the first workshop ever carried out from a community…
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EVENT IN ENGLISH - CLICK HERE,
Los jóvenes, libres de actuar por iniciativa propia, pueden guiar a quienes les preceden en la dirección de lo desconocido... Los niños, los jóvenes, deben formular las preguntas que nunca se nos ocurriría hacer, pero es preciso restablecer la suficiente confianza para que se permita a sus mayores trabajar con ellos en las respuestas. - Margaret Mead
, Panel virtual interactivo
26 de octubre, 2021, 4:00 pm -6:00 pm CET, online
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Diversas sociedades de todo el mundo se esfuerzan por alca...