The Director of the Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Kwesi Aning, has been promoted to Professor.
Professor Aning joined the Centre in January 2007. He has previously worked at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and then African Security Dialogue and Research (ASDR), before being headhunted to serve as the African Union’s (AU) first expert on counterterrorism from 2005-2007. As part of his responsibilities, he had oversight responsibility for the AU’s African centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT) in Algiers, Algeria, where under his watch, a Code of Conduct was designed for member states, a threat assessment template and a Model Counter-terrorism Law was also developed.
In both 2006 and 2014, he was invited to write the Independent mid-term in-depth evaluation of the Global Programme on Strengthening the Legal Regime against Terrorism (https://www.unodc.org/documents/evaluation/indepth-evaluations/2015/GLOR35_Mid-term_In-Depth_Evaluation_Report_May_2015.pdf) . In 2008, he wrote a UN Secretary General’s report on the relationship between the United Nations and regional organisations, in particular the African Union, in the maintenance of international peace and security. Until January 2019, he served on the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Group for the Peacebuilding Fund. He specialises in peacekeeping economies, hybrid security/political orders and organised crime.
His recent publications include:
He attended Mfantsipim School from 1975-1982 where he studies for his ordinary and advanced level general certificate examinations. He continued to the University of Ghana and majored in History with a minor in Religions in 1986. As a result of student political disturbances, he left for Denmark in 1986 where he got political asylum and lived until 2000. During his period there, he learned Danish and completed a cand. Phil. in history in 1990, with a dissertation on Strategies of Non-alignment: Nkrumah’s foreign policies, 1960-1966. Between 1991-1995, he engaged in ethnic minority politics serving on the Council of Ethnic Minorities, which was an advisory body to the government through the Ministry of the Interior. He also headed the national association of Danish Refugee Friends for several years, which provided support and advisory services to asylum applicants all over Denmark. He completed his doctoral studies at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, in 1998 with a dissertation on the Liberian civil war and the intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
KAIPTC congratulates Professor Aning on this great accomplishment and recognition!
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KAIPTC COVID-19 Special Guidelines for International Course Facilitators and Course Participants travelling to KAIPTC:
1. Kindly read the Ghana Government, the KAIPTC COVID-19 General and Special Guidelines for International travellers carefully and be advised accordingly (click here to read);
2. It is mandatory to upgrade your health insurance to cover expenses for possible COVID-19 quarantine and treatment.
3. The cost of the three (3) COVID-19 PCR tests up to a total of USD 450 – will be reimbursed for participants of sponsored KAIPTC courses. The tests comprise one before embarkation to Ghana, one at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) and the final test prior to departing Ghana. All receipts are required for reimbursements to be made.
4. Course participants accommodated at KAIPTC are required to stay on-site during the entire duration of the course.
5. Neither the Ghana Government, the Ghana Ministry of Defence, KAIPTC, the Course Sponsor nor the organising country, can be held responsible in any way for further costs arising out of a positive COVID-19 test or a COVID-19 infection.
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KAIPTC COVID-19 Directives spéciales pour les animateurs et les participants aux cours internationaux qui se rendent au KAIPTC :
1. Veuillez lire attentivement les directives générales et spéciales du KAIPTC COVID-19 à l’intention des voyageurs internationaux et en tenir compte (cliquez ici pour lire – uniquement en anglais) ;
2. Il est obligatoire d’améliorer votre assurance santé pour couvrir les frais d’une éventuelle quarantaine et d’un traitement COVID-19.
3. Le coût des trois (3) tests PCR COVID-19 – jusqu’à un total de 450 USD – sera remboursé aux participants des cours parrainés par le KAIPTC. Les tests comprennent un test avant l’embarquement pour le Ghana, un test à l’aéroport international de Kotoka (KIA) et le test final avant le départ du Ghana. Tous les reçus sont nécessaires pour effectuer les remboursements.
4. Les participants aux cours hébergés au KAIPTC sont tenus de rester sur place pendant toute la durée du cours.
5. Ni le gouvernement du Ghana, ni le ministère de la défense du Ghana, ni le KAIPTC, ni le sponsor du cours, ni le pays organisateur ne peuvent être tenus responsables de quelque manière que ce soit des coûts supplémentaires résultant d’un test COVID-19 positif ou d’une infection COVID-19.
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