Press Releases

  • KAIPTC Alumni extol value of Academic Programmes at Maiden Homecoming Event
    July 21, 2017 0
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    KAIPTC Alumni extol value of Academic Programmes at Maiden Homecoming Event   At a well-attended inaugural Alumni Homecoming event held at KAIPTC on 20 July, several […]
  • Call for Papers – Journal of African Peace and Security
    July 20, 2017 0
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    Call for Papers – Journal of African Peace and Security   Introduction The maintenance of peace and security in Africa remains a critical challenge. In many […]
  • Lord Ahmad Of Wimbledon praises KAIPTC for contributing to Global Peacekeeping
    July 18, 2017 0
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    The British Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict and Minister of State for the Commonwealth and United Nations, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, has lauded KAIPTC’s contribution to global peacekeeping, citing its hallmark of training over fifteen thousand participants for peace support operations around the world. He further noted that the Centre is the only training institution on the continent to have a Women, Peace and Security Institute. He made these remarks during a round table meeting held at KAIPTC to discuss ‘UN Peacekeeping Reform: the UN and Africa’. He stressed the UK government’s support for reform in peacekeeping through improvement in three areas – Planning, Pledges, and performance. These 3P’s, contained in the joint ‘Communiqué signed at the London Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial last September, is considered a blueprint for peacekeeping reform.
  • IGP calls for deeper collaboration between Police Service and KAIPTC
    July 18, 2017 0
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    The Inspector General of Police (IGP) of Ghana, Mr. David Asante-Apeatu, has highlighted the need to strengthen the rapport between the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), and the Ghana Police Service, to achieve shared goals on peace and security in the nation and beyond. “We can further collaborate to explore other critical areas of policing, including counter terrorism, transnational organized crime, human trafficking and proliferation of small arms”. This move, he believes, will not only be beneficial to the Ghana Police Service, but also other Police Services within the ECOWAS sub-region.
  • Delegation from the African Union visits KAIPTC
    June 27, 2017 0
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    A team of technical experts from the Peace and Security Department of the African Union have visited KAIPTC on a two-fold mission: to hold preliminary discussions on methodology for research on Ghana’s structural vulnerability assessment, and a planned establishment of a National Early Warning Centre at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ghana.
  • KAIPTC pilots a Trainer Of Trainers Course in Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa
    June 22, 2017 0
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    In collaboration with the Austrian Ministry of Defense and Sports, the Austrian Development Agency, and the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, KAIPTC has rolled out a pilot Training of Trainers Course in Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa.
  • Defense Minister visits KAIPTC
    May 19, 2017 0
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    The Minister for Defense, Honorable Dominic Nitiwul, as part of a familiarization visit to the 5 Garrisson, called on the Executive Management Committee of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), to get himself acquainted with the operations of the Centre.
  • KAIPTC Partners Austria to roll out Africa’s first Political Advisor Course for Peace Support Operations in Africa
    May 19, 2017 0
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    The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) has partnered the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defense and Sports to develop the first-ever Political Advisor Course for Peace Support Operations in Africa. This course comes to critically fill a need and void in grooming Political Advisors who play a very critical role in providing leadership support for Commanders of Military Operations and Heads of Missions in Africa.
  • KAIPTC trains Research Staff of the Parliament of Zimbabwe
    May 10, 2017 0
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    KAIPTC, at the request of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, has conducted a capacity building workshop in Policy Analysis and Design for selected staff of the Department of Research of the legislative body. The five-day workshop, aimed at equipping the participants with the requisite knowledge and skills in public analysis and design, in order to deliver effective technical and research assistance to committees and members of Parliament. Participants comprised research officers who all hold various academic qualifications from different disciplines such as Law, Economics, Political Science, Public Health, Gender studies, Humanities and Development Studies.
  • Experts Highlight Ghana’s Post-Election Highs and Lows at KAIPTC’s Reflection Security Series event
    May 4, 2017 0
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    The aftermath of the 2016 general elections, has been marred by some worrying occurrences that threatened to unravel and overshadow the commendable democratic gains made through holding successful elections in December last year. The activities of vigilante groups, particularly, have raised a lot of eyebrows and concerns on the nation’s security and the effectiveness of its security institutions.