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 as well as research.
NUPI’s research seeks to contribute 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.
At NUPI the programme focuses on three areas of priority:
In addition, NUPI’s activities in the programme are informed by the cross-cutting themes of gender and sexual based violence and North/South relations.
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), the African Civilian Response Capacity for Peace Support Operations (AFDEM) 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
Peacekeeping & Peacebuilding Nexus
This project will focus on synergies and challenges of the transition between peacekeeping and peacebuilding. Les mer
Protection of Civilians
This project seeks to contribute to ongoing process of mainstreaming the Protection of Civilians into the African Peace and Security Architecture. Les mer
Civilian Capacity
The project seeks to generate knowledge on the challenges facing civilian capacities within UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, as well as recommending ways in which they can be addressed. 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
- Karlsrud, John
(2013). The UN as a competitive arena for linked ecologies: The case of UN peacekeeping,
in Political Perspectives, 7
.Manchester,University of Manchester.s. 6-25.This article argues that the UN, in the area of peacekeeping, can be understood as a competitive arena, where informal policy alliances are competing to frame issues and build support for new norms, concepts and rules. [url] - de Coning, Cedric H., Paul Keating (2012). CivCap Network Annual Seminar 2012. Brasilia, Civilian Capacity Network. 19 sider. This report provides an overview of discussions during the 2012 Civilian Capacity Network seminar, organized by NUPI and Igarapé Institute.
- Schia, Niels Nagelhus (2012). Consensus making in the United Nations Security Council : how informal processes may enforce inequality. NUPI-notat: 814. 32 sider. How do small states behave once they have a seat at the table? Based on anthropological fieldwork, the author describes how one small state – Norway – operated during its previous membership of the United Nations Security Council.
- Solhjell, Randi , Niels Nagelhus Schia, Marcela Donadio, Ancil Adrian-Paul, Juan Rial , Renata Giannini (2012). Turning UNSC Resolution 1325 into operational practice. Oslo, NUPI. 40 sider. SiP. Rapporten tar for seg integrering av kjønnsperspektiver blant militære i internasjonale operasjoner med studier fra FN-operasjonene i Kongo, Liberia og Haiti samt det norske NATO-bidraget i Afghanistan.
- Schia, Niels Nagelhus, John Karlsrud (2012). Contextualizing peacebuilding activities to local circumstances. Oslo, NUPI. 30 sider. Security in Practice. Denne komparative rapporten oppsummerer funnene fra de tre feltrapportene som utgjør prosjektet Contextualizing peacebuilding activities to local circumstances. Prosjektet ble gjennomført som en sammenlignende studie av FNs fredsbygging på lokalt nivå i tre land - Haiti, Liberia og Sør-Sudan.
- de Coning, Cedric H., Linnéa Gelot, Ludwig Gelot [red.] (2012). Supporting African Peace Operations . , NUPI, The Nordic Africa Institute, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. 117 sider. Policy Dialogue No.8. Denne rapporten tar for seg fire utfordringer: 1) Den afrikanske Unions (AU) Kommisjons begrensede kapasitet i å planlegge og styre fredsoperasjoner; 2) utilstrekkelig politisk engasjement fra afrikanske medlemmer i AU fredsoperasjoner; 3) Kortsiktigheten og egeninteressen hos enkelte AU-partnere; 4) og behovet for at de faste medlemmene av FNs sikkerhetsråd deler verdier og sikrer en felles AU-FN-strategi.
- Rieker, Pernille , Ole Jacob Sending [red.] (2012). Inter-cultural dialogue in international crises. Oslo, NUPI. 103 sider. Målet med denne rapporten er å studere dialogens rolle som et verktøy for å forebygge, håndtere og løse internasjonale konflikter, illustrert ved tre tilfeller som varierer når det gjelder type konflikt, varighet og utfall.
- Eriksen, Stein Sundstøl, Sverre Lodgaard, Arne Melchior, Karl Rich, Elana Wilson Rowe, Ole Jacob Sending (2012). BRICS, Energy and the New World Order . Oslo, NUPI. 39 sider. I denne studien undersøker NUPI-forskere ulike aspekter ved temaet BRIKS og global energi.
- Eggen, Øyvind , Ole Jacob Sending (2012). Recent contributions to research on health and foreign policy . Oslo, NUPI. 36 sider. The report reviews recent research literature on the interrelations between health, on the one hand, and foreign policy/ diplomacy and global governance, on the other. It discusses how the literature responds to different challenges involved, and concludes by pointing at some shortcomings to be addressed in future research.
- Karlsrud, John , Randi Solhjell
(2012). Gender-Sensitive Protection and the Responsibility to Prevent: Lessons from Chad ,
in Global Responsibility to Protect, Volume 4, Issue 2
.Brill.s. 223 – 240 .The R2P concept relates as much to preventing mass atrocities as to halt on-going ones. This article emphasises the gender dimensions of prevention of and protection against violence and other threats, in order to stress the importance of implementing and mainstreaming gender into R2P. The case study here is the UN support mission to Chad and the Central African Republic (MINURCAT) that provided a fairly encouraging, albeit short-lived, example of gender-responsive measures at the community level for refugees and IDPs in eastern Chad. [url]