ZIF News
Training on "Mentoring and Advising" at EUPOL Afghanistan (23.01.2012)
From January 15-19, 2012, ZIF in cooperation with the German Federal Police and the Ministry of Interior of Saxony-Anhalt, carried out a training on "Mentoring and Advising" in Kabul for EUPOL Afghanistan.
In total, 22 mission members from the rule of law and police pillars took part in...
ZIF weekly update covers Syria (12.01.2012)
Starting with today’s edition, our weekly „Peace Operations Update“ will provide information on the Arab League’s observer mission in Syria. More information on this mission can be found on the Syria country page of the ZIF website.
"Roster Management Handbook" published (23.12.2011)
The Roster Management Handbook was published recently in the framework of the civcap project. The handbook is drawing lessons learnt from ROSTERING, a technique increasingly applied to civilian expertise for peace operations.
This handbook is addressed to roster practitioners and experts,...
Crisis Management Toolbox Co-published with SAIS (16.12.2011)
SWP and ZIF publish the Crisis Management Toolbox. The Toolbox which is a product of a joint project on behalf of the German Foreign Office earlier this year is included in a joint publication of
Second Workshop on Scenario Planning (30.11.2011)
„The Future of Peace Operations in the Year 2025“
ZIF at the 17th IAPTC Conference (29.11.2011)
As in earlier years, the German “Training Platform for Peace Operations” was jointly represented at the 17th annual IAPTC conference by staff of the Command and Staff College of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg, the UN Training Centre of the German Armed Forces in Hammelburg, the Federal...
ZIF training course on „Mentoring in Civilian Crisis Management“ (25.11.2011)
From 14th to 18th November ZIF carried out a training course on “Mentoring in Civilian Crisis Management”.
The thematic inputs covered definitions of mentoring, techniques and exercises related to negotiations, concepts of Local Ownership in mentoring, working with interpreters as well as an input...
Workshop "Managing Enteqal: Milestones for Transition in Afghanistan 2012-2014" (21.11.2011)
Smart ideas for Afghanistan’s future
New Frameworks for Peace Operations Partnerships (17.11.2011)
High-Level Workshop on future international cooperations in Berlin
New UNSSC-ZIF publication (01.11.2011)
“The role of elections in peace processes: When and how do they advance stability or exacerbate conflict”
OCHA First Training in Berlin (12.10.2011)
As part of the newly signed Stand-By Partnership Programme (SBPP) agreement with the
United Nations Office for the...Conference Report on “Chieftaincy Conflicts“ (11.10.2011)
The Ghana National House of Chiefs (NHC) and ZIF published a conference report on “Sources and Settlement of Chieftaincy and Land Conflicts” in a special edition of the official NHC publication Chieftaincy Bulletin.
The report documents and summarizes the proceedings of a joint ZIF/NHC conference...
Training Course on Crisis Information Management (09.10.2011)
ZIF is supporting a training course in Crisis Information Management that is put together by the Swiss organization ICT4Peace and organized by the
Cairo Regional Center for Training on...Mentoring Training for EULEX Kosovo (30.09.2011)
ZIF together with Dr. Hendrik Fuchs of the Ministry of the Interior of the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt carried out an ‘in-mission’ mentoring training for the EULEX Mission in Kosovo from September 25-30, 2011. The training was part of the overall In-Service training organized by the mission for...
UN Peace Support Operations for specialists (30.09.2011)
ZIF and the Command and Staff College initiate future German peacekeepers into the secrets of mission planning and management
Rule of Law Specialization Course (28.09.2011)
The fourth specialization course organized by the Rule of Law Training Project together with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) begins on Sunday.
From 02 to 08 October 2011, approx. 30 UN Judicial Affairs Officers and lawyers from developing countries...
500th application to ENTRi training courses (23.09.2011)
We are pleased to announce that the ENTRi project, which was initiated in early 2011, has received its 500th applicant to training courses.
One of the criteria for participation at free ENTRi courses is the direct link to recruitment in missions. Participants have, until now, attended nine courses...
ZIF World Map Peace Operations 2011 online (22.09.2011)
To download the map, pleace follow this link. In addition, you can access a document containing tables of international and German personnel numbers and a brief summary of...
UN OCHA and ZIF sign Stand-By Partnership Agreement (12.09.2011)
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) today officially confirmed, during a signing ceremony in Geneva, their agreement to collaborate through the...
New ZIF Policy Briefing has been released (08.09.2011)
Five Paradoxes of Peace Operations (by Richard Gowan)
E-discussion on Diaspora and Peacebuilding is starting September 9, 2011 (07.09.2011)
Within the framework of the civcap project a third e-discussion of the
Stabilization and Peacebuilding...Local Ownership Project publishes final report (16.08.2011)
"Ownership in Practice. Lessons from Liberia and Kosovo"
Islamic Law Workshop in Cairo (28.06.2011)
From 15-16 June 2010, ZIF will organize a conference on "Islamic Law, the Rule of Law and International Peace Operations" in Cairo in close cooperation with its Egyptian partner institution Cairo Center for Training on Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping in Africa (<link...
Pilot Training Course: “Comprehensive Approaches in Multi-Functional Peace Support Operations” (10.06.2011)
From June 05-10, 2011 the first pilot training course on “Comprehensive Approaches in Multi-Functional Peace Support Operations” was carried out within the “Training Platform for Peace Operations” together by ZIF and the Command and Staff College of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg.
Participants...
ZIF participating in “Peace and Security Department Civilian Standby Roster Implementation Workshop” of the African Union (30.05.2011)
The African Union is holding the “Peace and Security Department Civilian Standby Roster* Implementation Workshop” on May 30-31, 2011 in Kampala/Uganda.
The workshop is focusing on the implementation of the civilian component of the African Standby Force. Within this framework Hannelore Valier...
Rule of Law Specialization Course (20.05.2011)
The second rule of law specialization course organized by the Rule of Law Training Project together with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) begins on Sunday.
From 22 to 28 May 2011, approx. 30 UN Judicial Affairs Officers and lawyers from...
civcap Workshop on "Assessment of roster candidates" (18.05.2011)
From March 17-18 ZIF hosted a workshop within the framework of the civcap project focussing on assessment of roster candidates. During the workshop different assessment methods (e.g. interviewing techniques, group assignments etc.) as well as the documentation of...
New ZIF Policy Briefing (11.05.2011)
Policing the Peace: The Rise of United Nations Formed Police Units
Second international meeting of the „International Peacebuilding & Stabilization Initiative” (ISPI), May 02-04, 2011 (04.05.2011)
As a member of the International Peacebuidling & Stabilization Initiative (ISPI), ZIF is currently participating in the second international meeting of the initiative. This meeting is taking place in the context of the...
Report on Local Ownership published (02.05.2011)
Within the framework of ZIF’s research project on Local Ownership, Leopold von Carlowitz wrote a report on “Local Ownership in Practice: Justice System Reform in Kosovo and Liberia” which was recently published as an Occasional Paper with the Swiss research institute DCAF...
International Advisory Council Meeting (06.04.2011)
ZIF's International Advisory Council convened on April 5, 2011 in Berlin to review last year's activities and discuss the plannig of the next months.
Moreover this group of distinguished national and international experts discussed challenges of future peace operations in a workshop in the...
Joint AFDEM/ZIF Workshop in Gaborone, Botswana (25.03.2011)
Within the framework of the civcap project, ZIF together with AFDEM (African Civilian Response Capacity for Peace Support Operations) organized a workshop on recruitment topics in the realm...
Blog on Afghanistan (23.03.2011)
ZIF Director Almut Wieland-Karimi has published a blog on the Afghan Analysts Network. It discusses possible scenarios for Afghanistan after the planned withdrawal of NATO forces in 2014. Read the blog
Meeting with Scandinavian Partner Institutions (18.03.2011)
ZIF’s director Almut Wieland-Karimi and the head of training Markus Postert met with senior management representatives of our partner institutions of the Finnish Crisis Management Centre and the Swedish <link...
Meeting on Crisis Information Management (18.03.2011)
On 18 March representatives of the training organizations Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA),
Crisis Management Centre...Specialization Course on Field Security (25.02.2011)
From 20-25 February ZIF carried out a Field Security Training at the UN Training Center of the German armed forces in Hammelburg. Twenty participants took part in the training that covered topics like behavior in complex risk situations, mine awareness, stress management, behavior at checkpoints,...
Fact-finding visit to Sudan (24.02.2011)
The director of ZIF, Almut Wieland-Karimi led a small delegation visiting Sudan from February 18 – 22, 2011 where they held talks on the successful referendum for independence in South Sudan, the current situation in the north, and possibilities for new peace operation mandates.
Besides...
Head of Mission, EUPOL Afghanistan visits ZIF (18.02.2011)
Brigadier General Jukka Savolainen, Head of Mission EUPOL Afghanistan, visited ZIF on February 17, 2011. Together with ZIF's director Almut Wieland-Karimi and Citha Maaß of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs he discussed lessons learned and perspectives for cooperation of...
President Koroma on the peace process in Sierra Leone (15.02.2011)
„Peacebuilding is a process, it has to be continued and you have to sustain it!”
Training course for future ECOWAS election observers (10.02.2011)
From January 31 through February 9, ZIF co-organized the 9th training course for ECOWAS election observers together with our long-standing partners from the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center (KAIPTC).
The group consisted...
Rule of Law Workshop in Cairo postponed (02.02.2011)
The turbulent situation in Egypt has led ZIF to postpone a workshop on “Islamic Law, the Rule of Law and International Peace Operations”.
From 21 to 23 February 2011, approx. 40 Islamic Law and Rule of Law experts as well as representatives of relevant international organizations and training...
Expert Statement in UN Forum on Minority Issues (16.12.2010)
On December 14 and 15, 2010 Leopold von Carlowitz, Project Leader of Rule of Law Training Program, participated as expert in the Third United Nations Forum on Minority Issues of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
In front of 600 State delegates and representatives of international organizations...
“Peace needs time” - After-Work-Briefing with Ray Kennedy (16.12.2010)
In the last parliamentary week of the year, ZIF organized a lunch briefing on the Referendum in Sudan to be held on January 9, 2011. According to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, this vote decides on the independence of Southern Sudan. With the referendum the UN Mission in the country, UNMIS also...
ZIF at the 16th IAPTC Conference in Bangladesh (November 28 - December 2, 2010) (06.12.2010)
The International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centres (IAPTC) was founded in 1995 by the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre of Canada. The aim of its yearly conferences is to facilitate the exchange of information between training providers...
Meeting with the U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) (06.12.2010)
Today, on their way back from the International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centres (IAPTC) meeting in Bangladesh, Col Stephen Smith (Director) and Col Timothy Loney (Chief of Training) from the
Training for Judges and Prosecutors for Rule of Law Missions (06.12.2010)
From November 23 to December 3, 2010 twenty-two pre-selected German experts participated in a specialized Training Course for judges abd prosecutors in Berlin.
The course included mission specific briefings, general awareness rising of inter-cultural aspects, one day of 4x4 driving as well as one...