IPT International Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Training Programme 3.62

IPT – the “International Civilian Peace-keeping and Peace-building Training Program” – was born out of a response UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali´s “Agenda for Peace” in 1992. Then, training centers and programs for the development of civilian experts to work in crisis regions did hardly exist. IPT was the first of its kind in Europe and can now look back to a trained pool of nearly 1,500 civilian experts from all over the world. The courses which the ASPR has developed in the framework of IPT also helped to develop the OSCE training standards and to develop and standardize curricula within the European Group on Training (EGT) and Europe’s New Training Initiative for Civilian Crisis Management (ENTRi).

IPT is structured in Core and Specialization Courses. The Core Courses are basic mission preparation trainings. during which the participants cover the following modules: Introduction to Peace-keeping and Peace-building, Intercultural Communication, Third Party Interventions, Mediation and Negotiation Techniques, Human Rights and Democratization, Gender and Peace-building, Project Management, Personal Safety, First Aid and Personal Hygiene, Liaison with CIVPOL and the military, Mine Awareness, Stress Management and Dealing with Trauma.

Building upon the Core Course, IPT offers Specialization Courses for function specific duties in the field.