UNITAR’s Very First Bottom-Up Crowdfunding Campaign for Scholars from Developing Countries

 The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is kicking off its first-ever bottom-up crowdfunding campaign, UNITAR Peace Funder, which enables selected professionals from all regions of the world to enhance their applicable knowledge and technical skills, further consolidating their ability to act as peacebuilders and changemakers.
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Peace Education – From Hiroshima to the World

Training peacebuilders for the future is one of the key underlying purposes of the UNITAR Hiroshima Office, which is celebrating its 15th Anniversary since it was established in the City of Peace in 2003. Peace education requires a holistic and comprehensive scheme: the understanding of the circumstances leading to instability, the listening to the opinions of all involved, and the effort to affect positive change little by little.
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Building Strong Listening Skills Key to Peace Education and Effective Peacemaking

Building Strong Listening Skills Key to Peace Education and Effective Peacemaking

What are some of the key capacities of effective peacemakers? “An ability to listen well, to seek to understand the concerns, experience and perspectives of others;  to not get stuck on the symptoms, but rather to look deeply at the root causes driving a conflict; to come in with an open mind understanding there are many ways to view a conflict situation; and only with that really important material, and perspective on the needs and concerns of others can lasting solutions be crafted that are based on the joint needs of the parties.” 
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“The Capital of Peace”: Enriching Geneva through Peace Education

The escalation and recurrence of violence that frequently occurs in our daily life are primarily due to the lack of mechanisms necessary to prevent and manage it. At the time when conflicts remain an everyday reality, peace education becomes the surest mechanism of early violence prevention. Its capacity to stop and tack disputes in the most constructive ways converts it into an essential competence calling for a lifelong practice.
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UNITAR Hosts Training on Conflict Resolution, Mediation, and Negotiation

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office, in partnership with Columbia Law School and the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, is excited to announce our certificate lecture series on “Conflict Resolution, Mediation and Negotiation” for United Nations diplomats and change agents around the world.
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Challenges of mercury waste management in developing countries

Waste experts from UN agencies, private consultants, hazardous waste management companies and a number of countries met recently in Vienna to discuss the various challenges facing developing countries in meeting the obligations of the Minamata Convention for the sound management of waste containing mercury.
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Announcements
Women’s Leadership Programme for Afghanistan

UNITAR and Japan launch the Women’s Leadership Programme for 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 programme offers scholarship to twenty young professional women from twenty public, private and civil society organisations in Afghanistan.  
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Publication of a handbook for formalizing the artisanal

Publication of a handbook for formalizing the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector

Sustainable transformation of the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector has been increasingly recognized as an opportunity to alleviate poverty and contribute to local, national, and regional development. The ASGM sector has been estimated to provide direct employment for over 16 million people, and indirect employment for some 100 million people through the cash it injects into typically rural economies where few other industries can thrive.
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The International Forum on Sustainable Mobility

The International Forum on Sustainable Mobility

While urbanization is now recognized as one of the main drivers of transformation in the 21st century, cities and territories are facing new challenges caused by a growing population density, economic activity and social and cultural interactions. These environmental and humanitarian challenges lead local developmental actors to work more closely together on the design and establishment of tomorrow’s cities and territories.
 
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Partnerships

UNITAR Signs Partnership Agreement with Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart University

UNITAR signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart University (HMSU), represented by his Excellency Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Deputy Chairman of Police and General Security in Dubai and Chairman of HBMSU’s Board of Governors (BOG). As the only accredited e-learning university by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, HMSU constitute a partner of excellence for UNITAR.
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UNITAR Cooperates with UNICAJA Banco S.A. to Advance Financial Inclusion

UNITAR Cooperates with UNICAJA Banco S.A. to Advance Financial Inclusion

UNITAR signs a cooperation agreement with UNICAJA Banco S.A. with the aim of building capacity of policymakers, public administrations, and financial institutions on financial inclusion and on designing economic development-oriented policies that reduce poverty and foster shared prosperity.
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UNITAR Partners with Leading Public Universities to Promote SDGs in Curriculum and Research

UNITAR Partners with Leading Public Universities to Promote SDGs in Curriculum and Research

Close to 50 leading public universities in the United States, Canada and Mexico as well as higher education associations committed to raising awareness and align its curricula and research with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a new partnership, launched by UNITAR.
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Presentation of CIFAL Malaga and its Executive Board

Alex Mejia, Director of the Division for People and Social Inclusion of UNITAR alongside Mr. Francisco de la Torre, Mayor of Malaga, oversaw the creation of the Board of CIFAL (Centro Internacional de Formación para Autoridades y Líderes) Malaga. During this public event hosted in Malaga, the City Council signed three Memorandum of Understandings (MOU) with Unicaja Bank, the University of Malaga, and the Confederation of Andalusia Businessmen, each represented by their Presidents.
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