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1 Training of Trainers Course on Peacekeeping, Civilian

Protection and Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

From 5 to 9 March, 2018, CoESPU hosted the Graduation of the 1 Training of Trainers
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Course on Peacekeeping, Civilian Protection and Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
This course saw the presence of

21 Officers coming from the
following 13 countries: Algeria,
Austria, Burkina Faso, France,
Georgia, Italy, Mauritania,
Norway, Poland, Romania,
Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
The training was developed by

the Global Centre for the
Responsibility to Protect, in this
occasion represented by Ms.
Savita Pawnday, Deputy
Executive Director, and
CoESPU.
The responsibility to protect embodies a political

commitment to end the worst forms of violence
and persecution. It seeks to narrow the gap
between Member States’ pre-existing obligations
under international humanitarian and human
rights law and the reality faced by populations at
risk of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and
crimes against humanity.

In crises areas throughout the world, women, girls,
boys, and men are targeted by deliberate and
frequent violations of international human rights
and humanitarian law.
For these reasons, R2P is one of the most important
and visible issues of United Nations strategy in

conducting modern multidimensional Peace
Operations.
Since the adoption of the Responsibility to Protect
as a “Peace Concept” in 2001, an increasing

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