February 2010 Edition of UNITAR News

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In Focus

Training course commences on the Protection of Civilians in Peace Operations

UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme (PTP), in collaboration with the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), is holding a training course on the Protection of Civilians in Peace Operations that seeks to advance a better understanding of the theoretical and practical framework of the protection of civilians.

Vice-President of the UNITAR Board, Prof. Radha Kumar, inaugurated the UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme’s (PTP) second face-to-face training course being held in New Delhi, India from February 1-5, 2010. The introductory course on Understanding Conflict and Conflict Analysis aims to analyze the interaction between the context, the actors, and the causes of conflict.

The United Nations system is a complex constellation of interrelated organizations assisted by an impressive number of principal and subsidiary organs. The system has considerably evolved over the years in order to adjust to changing situations. The relationship between some of its elements may at times be puzzling. With the purpose of analyzing in depth the respective roles and functions of the principal organs of the UN and their subsidiary bodies, UNITAR offers to the diplomatic communities in UN locations a number of courses focusing in particular on the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council.

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