RESTRICTED UNITAR Thesis ICT, SRS AND PSO – MSC Ezeoke techniques to achieve humanitarian ends.[3-33] Efforts will therefore need to be made by UN DPKO and TCC to harmonize contingents understanding of individual mission requirements before joining the mission.
In depth cultural training about the conflict should be seen as a priority before arrival and thereafter supplementary induction training may be performed on arrival. The Australian contingent to operation restore hope was relatively successful because it adopted the strategy of researching and learning the Somali custom ever before they arrived the country. Consequently, while the behavior of a few members of some contingents damaged the missions credibility the Australians actions in Baidoa enlisted local support.[3-34]
Already UNITAR POCI offers low-cost distance training to peacekeepers, potential peacekeepers, police and humanitarian workers world-wide through e-learning and printed courses which are subsidized to personnel already on UN missions.[3-35] However these courses are on a voluntary basis and not mandatory for potential personnel. Perhaps some of the courses such as the Introduction to the UN System: Orientation for
serving on a UN Field Mission, Principles for Conduct of PSO and UN Military Observers: Methods and Techniques for Serving on a UN Observer Mission could be made sine qua non because the knowledge provided was immense.
More importantly since mid 2006, UNITAR POCI in cooperation with the UN DPKO Integrated Training Service (ITS) has been offering the same training to all African and Latin-American peacekeepers, military, police
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