PK\Humanitarian Operations Training Course Announcement

Fabrizio Pagani (mailto:pkocorso@SSSUP1.SSSUP.IT)
Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:22:56 MET 

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Date:         Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:22:56 MET
From: Fabrizio Pagani <mailto:pkocorso@SSSUP1.SSSUP.IT>
Subject:      PK\Humanitarian Operations Training Course Announcement
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1996 training course announcement


Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di
Perfezionamento Sant'Anna, Pisa




The Civilian Personnel of
the Peace-keeping/Humanitarian Operations and
the Election Monitoring Missions:
Volunteers, Officers, Observer


(Pisa, Italy, 1 - 20 July 1996)


The civilian personnel of the peace-keeping/humanitarian
operations is involved in a wide range of duties.
Multidimensional operations require qualified and
readily available civilian personnel. United Nations,
regional organizations, governments and humanitarian
organizations lack highly skilled civilian experts.
This post-graduate course is intended to train a limited
group of participants -having different academic
backgrounds- for the tasks usually assigned to the
civilian peace-keeping/humanitarian operations and to
the election monitoring missions.


The programme will feature lectures, seminars, case
studies, workshops, role-playing and practical training.
The following are some of the subjects covered:
international organization and peace-keeping,
geopolitics of peace-keeping, humanitarian assistance,
human rights promotion, protection and monitoring,
refugee assistance, election observation, recruitment
and legal status of the civilian peace-keepers, civilian
and military relations in peace-keeping and humanitarian
operations, personal security, stress management,
preventive medicine, communication procedures,
negotiating and conflict resolution techniques, case
studies.
The programme will be conducted in English by
distinguished and expert faculty from both academic and
applied settings.


Direction: Andrea de Guttry, Fabrizio Pagani, Barbara
Carrai.


Tuition cost: L. 1.500.000 (around $ 1.000)/three week
course (tuition, reference material, lunch). There are
special terms for those requiring hotel and full board.
A limited number of scholarships is provided.


Deadline for application: 2 May 1996.


For additional information and the application form
contact:
Andrea de Guttry, Jean Monnet Professor,
Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di
Perfezionamento SantAnna,
via Carducci, 40 - 56127 PISA (Italy).
Tel:++ 39-50-883312 Fax:++39-50-883210


For receiving the application form via e-mail and any
other e-mail corrispondence use the following address:
E-mail: mailto:PKOCORSO@SSSUP1.SSSUP.IT


The course is organized in cooperation with:


Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome),
Centro Militare di Studi Strategici (Rome),
Centro Internazionale di Ricerca, Formazione e
Documentazione sulla
OSCE (Perugia),
Croce Rossa Italiana (Rome)


and under the patronage of:


ITALIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS


UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS


EUROPEAN COMMISSION (Office of Rome)


UNITED NATIONS (Information Centre for Italy)