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About the EAPTC 2018
Leading Innovation in
Peace Operations:
Strengthening Tomorrows Performance.

The European Association of Peace Operations Training Centres (EAPTC) will hold its 6th Annual Seminar at the Maison de la Paix in Geneva 22-24 May 2018. Co-hosted by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), the Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces (DCAF), the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), and the Small Arms Survey, the 2018 EAPTC edition will focus on Leading Innovation in Peace Operations: Strengthening Tomorrows’ Performance.

 

At a time of increasing international political tension and divisiveness, many parts of the world are challenged by conflicts increasingly fuelled by organized crime, illicit networks, terrorism, natural resource diversion, environmental degradation, and corruption.

 

Multidimensional peace operations, whether United Nations or regional, are today expected to confront a broad range of interrelated and mutually reinforcing challenges to peace, security, and development. Contemporary missions are mandated to address situations of utmost complexity, often in high-risk environments where there is very little if any peace to keep.While concerted efforts have been made to adapt peace operations approaches and strategies to accommodate the changing security landscape, adaption is not keeping pace.

As a result, mandates have become lengthier and more detailed, and in the process less manageable and more

difficult to achieve. The prominence of new bilateral and regional actors has provided opportunities, but also a new dimension of complexity. The need to collaborate and coordinate has become ever more critical.

 

In these challenging times, what are the implications for tomorrows’ preparation and training for peace operations? What are the emerging needs and requirements? What are the concepts, methodologies, and capacities? How can we strengthen peace operations and the women and men in the field doing their utmost for the people they have been sent to protect, support, and empower?

 

The EAPTC brings together a broad range of expertise and outlooks, including national, regional, and international practitioners, academics, and other key stakeholders from Europe and beyond to address these challenges. This year’s EAPTC seminar will focus on selected areas in which innovation is currently playing a central part and holds promise for increased effectiveness and better outcomes of international interventions. Seeking to make optimal use of all women and men resources and to capatilise on new thinking across industries, the seminar will be dedicated to exploring forward looking solutions fitting for meeting the challenges of tomorrow.

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Programme
The
Agenda

May 22, 2018

Registration

Ideas Bazaar

17h00

18h00

Ice Breaker Reception

May 23, 2018

Registration

08h00

Welcome & Opening Ceremony

09h00

Challenging Times & Mission Complexity 

10h45

Lunch

12h15

Leading Innovation in Peace Operations I - Leadership Training Methodology

13h15

15h15

Leading Innovation in Peace Operations II - Security Sector Reform

Wrap Up Day 1

16h45

Working Dinner Cruise Henry-Dunant

on Lake Geneva - By Invitation Only

19h00

17h00

Certificate

Pickup

May 24, 2018

Follow up of Day 1 &

Introduction to Day 2

09h00

09h15

Leading Innovation in Peace Operations III - Managing Information in Challenging Environments

Leading Innovation in Peace Operations IV - Adressing the Risks of Small Arms and Ammunition Loss

11h00

12h15

Lunch

13h15

Leading Innovation in Peace Operations V - Senior Mission Leadership Training

14h15

Developing New Scenario Based Training for Peace Operations Leadership

16h15

Concluding Remarks

& Looking Ahead

Programme
The
Agenda

May 22, 2018

Registration

Ideas Bazaar

17h00

18h00

Ice Breaker Reception

May 23, 2018

Registration

08h00

Welcome & Opening Ceremony

09h00

Challenging Times & Mission Complexity 

10h45

Lunch

12h15

Leading Innovation in Peace Operations I - Leadership Training Methodology

13h15

15h15

Leading Innovation in Peace Operations II - Security Sector Reform

Wrap Up Day 1

16h45

Working Dinner Cruise Henry-Dunant

on Lake Geneva - By Invitation Only

19h00

May 24, 2018

Follow up of Day 1 &

Introduction to Day 2

09h00

09h15

Leading Innovation in Peace Operations III - Managing Information in Challenging Environments

Leading Innovation in Peace Operations IV - Adressing the Risks of Small Arms and Ammunition Loss

11h00

12h15

Lunch

13h15

Leading Innovation in Peace Operations V - Senior Mission Leadership Training

14h15

Developing New Scenario Based Training for Peace Operations Leadership

16h15

Concluding Remarks

& Looking Ahead

17h00

Certificate

Pickup

UN Photo- Logan Abassi

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