The Training for Peace in Africa programme (TfP) is an international peacekeeping capacity building and policy development initiative. Its primary purpose is to contribute towards the building of civilian and police capacities for the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU). Within the programme NUPI’s main responsibility is research and policy development, in cooperation with African partners who conduct the training and capacity building projects.
NUPI’s research contributes to the development of doctrine for peace operations, knowledge building and lessons learned from peacekeeping operations on the African continent, development of civilian and police peacekeeping know-how and capacity on peacekeeping operations and analysis of African states and the African security architecture.
The programme consists of an international network of partners including the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo.
The programme is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
To learn more about the programme, visit www.trainingforpeace.org
From Mandate to Practice: the Contextual Interpretation of the Protection of Civilians in Chad (MINURCAT)
The project addresses how protection as mandated by the UNSC through its resolutions is translated into protecting women and children in refugee camps in Chad in the context of the MINURCAT operation. Les mer
Gender Dynamics in Peace Operations
The project concerns the MINURCAT mission in Chad and the Protection of Civilians mandate in terms of sexual and gender-based violence. Les mer
Civilian Expertise and the Success of Peace Operations
The study will ask what type of civilian expertise is considered most important for UN peace operations, what the content of that civilian expertise is, whether it conforms or not to existing research on peace operations, and whether there are diverging views on these issues both among key UN member states and within the UN bureaucracy. Les mer
Gender Dynamics in Peace Operations (MONUC)
The project builds on earlier fieldwork in the DRC and the security sector reform (SSR) processes in the country. The project will examine the development of a Congolese security sector as the major perpetrator group of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Les mer
The Hybridization of Peace Operations in Africa and the Protection of Civilians: Towards Coherent Doctrines?
This project will investigate how the ongoing UN/AU hybrid mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the current operational restraints of African forces pose challenges to the emerging doctrine of integrated UN missions, as well as the practical challenges encountered at the doctrinal level in terms of standardizing two different rationales (AU and UN) into a common doctrine. Les mer
The Protection of Civilians and the Coordination of Efforts: Challenges from a Field Perspective
The aim of the study is to consolidate the knowledge available on the practice and training towards an efficient protection of civilians in peace operations by civilians and police personnel. Les mer
- Schia, Niels Nagelhus, Gerald Stang (2011). Historical Overview of Civil Affairs in UN Peace Operations . , . 44 sider.
- Haugevik, Kristin M, Øivind Bratberg (2011). Det glemte partnerskapet. Oslo, British Politics Society. 136 sider. Rapporten ser på forholdet mellom Norge og Storbritannia i et endret Europa.
- de Coning, Cedric H.
(2011). Civilian Peacekeeping Capacity: Mobilizing Partners to Match Supply and Demand,
i International Peacekeeping, Volum 18, no. 5
.Taylor&Francis.s. 577-592.This article proposes the formation of a global civilian capacity partnership that brings together the training and roster community, the UN Secretariat and a grouping of interested states, with the aim of significantly improving the UN Secretariat's ability to identify, recruit and deploy suitably qualified civilian personnel. [url] - Leira, Halvard , Benjamin de Carvalho
(2011). Innledning: Privat vold i internasjonal politikk,
i Internasjonal Politikk 3/2011
.Oslo,Universitetsforlaget.s. 437-443.I dette kapittelet som innleder temadelen om privat vold i internasjonal politikk spør forfatterne hva privat vold og privat sikkerhet egentlig betyr i denne sammenhengen, og hvorfor og hvordan disse fenomenene spiller en rolle for internasjonal politikk. [url] - Schia, Niels Nagelhus, Stang, Geral (2011). Historical Overview of Civil Affairs in UN Peace Operations. NUPI-notat: . 44 sider.
- Sending, Ole Jacob, Iver B. Neumann
(2011). Banking on power: how some practices in an international organization anchor others,
i (ed.) Emanuel Adler and Vincent Pouliot International Practices
.Cambridge University Press.s. 231-254.The article focuses on the practices that structure the relations between states and international organizations and seeks to capture the situated and contextualized character of how states operate within IOs, and how IOs operate vis-à-vis states. Crucially, the question of possible IO authority and autonomy may then be analyzed as the effects of concrete practices rather than as emanating from a priori defined features of IOs and/or states. [url] - de Coning, Cedric H., Andreas Øien Stensland, Walter Lotze (2011). Mission-Wide Strategies for the Protection of Civilians: A Comparison of MONUC, UNAMID and UNMIS. NUPI-notat: 792. 17 sider. This paper compares the protection of civilians strategies of three dif-ferent UN peacekeeping operations: the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC, since 2010 the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the DRC – MONUSCO); the hybrid African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID); and the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) that was drawn down in early 2010 and replaced by a new UN mission in Southern Sudan).
- de Coning, Cedric H., Ingrid Marie Breidlid, John Karlsrud (2011). Conference Proceedings: Mobilizing Civilian Capacity. Oslo, NUPI. 24 sider. The international civilian training and rostering community met in New York on 14 June 2011 to consider the Report of the Independent Review of Civilian Capacity in the Aftermath of Conflict, and discussed how to take the recommendations forward.
- Breidlid, Ingrid Marie, Jon Harald Sande Lie (2011). Challenges to Protection of Civilians in South Sudan: A Warning from Jonglei State. Oslo, NUPI. 45 sider. This report focuses on how protection issues are conceptualized and operationalized among international stakeholders (i.e. UNMIS, UN and non-UN organizations) in Bor, the state capital of Jonglei state in South Sudan, and explores key challenges to the implementation and impact of protection initiatives on the ground.
- Breidlid, Ingrid Marie, Cedric H. de Coning, Rebecca Jovin, PK Singh (2011). Conference Proceedings: Report of the Conference on Peacekeeping Vision 2015 Capabilities for Future Mandates. Oslo, NUPI. 55 sider. NUPI Report. The conference explored the capabilities required to enable future peacekeeping missions to respond effectively to diverse and evolving operating environments and increasingly complex mandates