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