July 18, 2017

Lord Ahmad Of Wimbledon praises KAIPTC for contributing to Global Peacekeeping

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.
July 18, 2017

IGP calls for deeper collaboration between Police Service and KAIPTC

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.
July 7, 2017

ECOWAS/KAIPTC Election Observation Training Course

ECOWAS/KAIPTC Election Observation Training Course  Background As the mainstay of the democratisation process, elections in many parts of the world have become fairly ‘routine’ with many countries preferring the conduct […]
July 5, 2017

Training Course on Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa

Training Course on Humanitarian Assistance in West Africa   Introduction The West African region is confronted with a number of inter-connected and transnational challenges, which constitute obstacles to integration and […]
June 29, 2017

Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict (POC17)

Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict (POC17) Introduction The Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) and the Swiss Confederation wish to invite qualified parties to attend the course […]