Page 38 - The CoESPU Magazine N 1 - 2018

Within Italy’s Third
National Action Plan, the
International Institute of
Humanitarian Law
(IIHL), based in Sanremo
(Italy), has designed a
specific project
“Enhancing training on
Women, Peace and
Security: integrating
gender perspective into
international operations”.
This initiative aims at
raising awareness by
delivering specific
training within the framework of the WPS agenda on gender, diversity and related issues for
personnel of armed and security forces as well as civilian personnel engaged in armed conflict
scenarios, with the main objective of further integrating the gender perspective into conflict
prevention, peacekeeping, peace-making and peace-building.
In this regard, the Sanremo Institute, in collaboration with the Carabinieri Centre of Excellence for
Stability Police
Units (CoESPU),
organized a
workshop – the first
of a series of three –
on “Enhancing
Diversity Skills in
International
Operations”. This
workshop, which
was held in
Sanremo from 12 to
16 March 2018,
focused on the
integration of the
gender perspective into international operations and was attended by police and military personnel
from Italy, Burkina Faso, France, Niger, Senegal, Uganda and the United Kingdom as well as
NATO officials and gender advisors.
The workshop was officially opened by Professor Fausto Pocar, President
of the IIHL, with the participation of Minister Plenipotentiary Francesca
Tardioli, Deputy Political Director and Principal Director for the United
Nations and Human Rights of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation, and Brigadier General Giovanni Pietro
Barbano, CoESPU Director.

Written by:
Capt Alberto Veronese
CoESPU Managing Editor

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