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FOREWORD

Over the last few years, the international Peace Community, ushered in
its efforts by the UN guidance, has identifi ed the concepts of “Monitoring,
Mentoring, Advising and Training” (MMA&T) as distinct, yet possibly inter-
connected, key tools to the international Police capacity building and deve-
lopment strategies in order to eventually ferry the local Institutions towards a
complete and sustainable self-suffi ciency.
Consistently with this vision, the UN Departments of Peace Operations and
of Field Support have widely addressed this topic in the so-called Strate-
gic Guidance Framework for UN Police, transversally across the “Policy”
publication, and more specifi cally in the descending “Guidelines on Police
Capacity Building and Development”. Moreover, at the end of 2018, in
line with this trend, the UN Security Council, with the Resolution 2447/18,
stressed “the critical importance of strengthening Police, Justice and Correction elements in peacekeeping
missions[…] to assist national government in stabilizing the situation, extend state authority, end impunity,
protect civilians […] and build and sustain Peace”.
In this perspective, in order to operationalize the abovementioned Guidelines, in 2017 the UN Police Divi-
sion drawn up – with the contribution, among the others, of CoESPU’s Subject Matter Experts – a thematic
Manual on “Police Monitoring, Mentoring and Advising in Peace Operations”. Indeed, following a logical
and chronological path, this publication gives practical advice to Police practitioners committed to Interna-
tional Peace Operations on how to fi rstly properly identify in the host-States the relevant security aspects to
monitor and, subsequently, to convert the monitoring outcomes in programmatic interventions, primarily
developable by means of mentoring or advising programmes – depending on the level of engagement. A
further and constant element to this process towards local-ownership is represented by the training provi-
ded in favour of and in cooperation with local personnel.
In this context, the Carabinieri Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU), from its side, offers
several relevant cutting-edge educational activities. More specifi cally, amongst the various endeavours
undertaken in this direction, it is worth to mention the “MMA&T” Course–organized within the “European
Union Police and Civilian Services Training” (EUPCST) programme–whose curriculum focuses on the role of
the “new-generation” advisors and mentors, their assignment and relationship with mentee and advisee, as
well as on how to identify local actors and coordinate with them in the outline of Peace Operations’ capaci-
ty building processes.
Furthermore, as a follow-up to the 1st “International Conference on Strategic Advising in Police Capacity
Building and Development - Lessons Learnt and Best Practices”, held at CoESPU in November 2019, a
brand new course, designed for Police Advisers working at the Institutional level, will be launched in 2020.
Against this background, this issue of the CoESPU Magazine presents noteworthy features on those chal-
lenging matters. In details, among other contributions, Robert A. Pulver analyses the Evolving Role of Rule
of Law Support in United Nations Peace Operations, while Annalisa Creta describes some lessons learned
related to the training for mentors and advisors. Additionally, Claudia Croci goes into details of well-being
in peacekeeping operations, whereas Karla P. Riberio delivers a study on Human Rights perspective in Latin
American Police.
Wishing you a pleasant reading, let me take this chance to invite you all to examine the opportunity to be-
come a contributor to our Stability Policing Journal, by submitting your pieces that could be possibly publi-
shed in future editions.
BG Giovanni Pietro BARBANO
CoESPUDirector