打印活动信息

Strengthening Civilian Capacities to Protect Civilians: Unarmed Civilian Protection [PTP.2024.14E]

和平

截止日期

1 11月 2024

种类

Course

位置

Web-based

日期

1 1月 2024 to 1 11月 2024

期限

1 Days

项目领域

Peacekeeping

网址

https://unitar.org/sustainable-development-goals/peace

价格

US$0.00

活动协调人email

ptp@unitar.org

背景信息

According to the World Bank, more than 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated violence. In absolute terms, the need for direct physical protection of civilians against imminent violence has never been greater than it is today. Local and international actors are struggling to protect all those under direct threat, wherever conflict occurs. A small number of civil society and humanitarian organizations have begun providing direct physical protection for civilians through a method called Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP), which promotes nonviolent means for a community to protect itself from violence.

活动目标

The aim of this advocacy presentation is to raise awareness for and increase understanding of UCP. It starts by explaining the need for UCP, followed by an introduction to its key principles and methods, and finally describing how it fits into wider protection efforts and global discourses.

学习目标

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Differentiate UCP from conventional peacekeeping;
Place UCP in the history of nonviolence, protection and conventional peacekeeping;
Define UCP and relevant terms linked to it;
Describe the actors within UCP; and
Locate UCP within key global discourses.

内容和框架

The course answers nine questions in sequence:

Why do we need to protect civilians?
Who has the responsibility to protect civilians?
What is unarmed civilian protection?
How does UCP work?
Why does UCP work?
How does UCP complement wider protection efforts?
What are the strengths of UCP?
How is UCP linked with key global discourses?
What can you do?

The average work time is estimated at 1 hour.

方法

This advocacy course is a self-guided, self-paced, web-based course that is on-going and can be accessed at any time. The material is presented in text format with visual aids and web-based reference resources. Regular activities allow the participant to test their understanding of and reinforce the message of the course.

目标受众

Primary audience: The course is designed for high level decision makers who can help shape global policy on Unarmed Civilian Protection, including diplomats, policy makers, politicians, donors, journalists, humanitarians, civil society and other human development leaders.

Secondary audience: The course is also geared towards students and any persons or groups with an interest in understanding and advocating for the better inclusion of Unarmed Civilian Protection into global peacekeeping efforts. Participants are not expected to have any prior experience or knowledge to take this course, other than:

Having a good command of the English language (reading and writing);
Being computer literate.

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