Comprehensive Generic Training Peace Operations (CGTPO)

Course Description

The Comprehensive Generic Training Peace Operations (CGTPO) prepares experts for deployment to UN, OSCE, or EU peace operations. The course follows the ZIF Civilian Expert Concept and builds the professional, personal, social and methodological skills required to successfully work in a peace operation. The training emphasises civil-police-military cooperation and the comprehensive approach, which is also embodied by the mixed trainer team. Other participants include national staff from UN, OSCE, and EU peace operations, as well as police officers and members of the armed forces.

The curriculum includes interactive, practical exercises based on a scenario that reflects mission realities. The course provides the space for participants to reflect critically on the work of peace operations and encourages open discussions in the spirit of peer learning.

This two-week training includes a Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) and is carried out in cooperation with the Police College North Rhine-Westphalia and the UN Training Centre of the Armed Forces. For applicants to the ZIF Expert Pool (open only to German nationals), the training is part of the selection process.

Learning Objectives

The overall objective of this course is to develop an understanding of:

• The mandate, functions and challenges of peace operations;
• The different roles and perspectives of military, police and civilian experts in peace operations;
• The professional, personal, social and methodological skills required to successfully work in peace operations.

The learning objectives of the HEAT course can be found here.

Target Audience

This course is designed for German and international civilian experts who would like to obtain a better understanding of the work of international peace operations and critically reflect on their own role in this professional field.

The course is also open to police officers and members of the armed forces.

NOTE: German nationals who take part in the course as external applicants and who do not go through the official selection process for the ZIF Expert Pool will not be a member of the pool after finishing the course.

Course Content

• Structure, development and mandate of UN, OSCE and EU missions
• Conflict-sensitive conflict analysis
• Conflict-sensitive project management
• Gender and the women, peace & security agenda
• Working in an intercultural context
• Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA)
• Code of conduct and ethics
• Negotiation and mediation support
• Strategic communication and (social) media relations
• Leadership skills in intercultural teams
• Stress management and peer groups
• Field orientation (radio communication & map reading)
• Civilian-police-military cooperation; comprehensive approach

More on the course content of the HEAT course here.

Prerequisites

• BSAFE & first aid eLearning certificates
• For applicants to the ZIF Expert Pool (German nationals only): nomination for the course through ZIF Human Resources

Organisatorisches

Kursgebühr:

• Die Kursgebühr für externe Bewerberinnen und Bewerber (einschließlich deutsche Bewerberinnen und Bewerber, die keine Mitgliedschaft im ZIF Expert Pool beantragen): 2.800,00 Euro.
• Für Bewerberinnen und Bewerber für den ZIF Expert Pool (nur für deutsche Staatsangehörige), sowie Mitglieder des Mercator-Netzwerkes und der deutschen Trainingspartnerplattform: 460,00 Euro.
• Die Kursgebühr beinhaltet die Kosten für Übernachtung und Verpflegung während des Trainings. Das Kurskonzept sieht auch gemeinsame Abendveranstaltungen vor. Daher wird die Übernachtung in der Tagungsstätte empfohlen. Es erfolgt keine Erstattung bzw. Reduzierung der Kursgebühr bei Nichtinanspruchnahme der Übernachtungsmöglichkeit. Versicherungs- oder Reisekosten sind nicht in der Kursgebühr enthalten und werden nicht erstattet.

Kursort: Ein Teil des Kurses findet in Brühl oder Berlin statt. Der HEAT-Teil des Kurses findet im VN-Ausbildungszentrum der Bundeswehr in Hammelburg statt. Das ZIF organisiert den kostenfreien Transport von Berlin oder Brühl zum VN-Ausbildungszentrum in Hammelburg sowie nach Kursende einen Shuttlebus von Hammelburg zum Flughafen in Frankfurt.

ZIF trainings

ZIF trainings are practice-oriented and reflect the operational reality of peace operations and (post-)conflict areas through exercises, role plays and scenario-based courses. Moreover, our trainings focus on the main areas of competence outlined in the ZIF Concept “Civilian Expert”. Additionally, we base our courses on contemporary concepts of adult education and peer learning. We try to create a joint learning space in which participants and the training team can exchange freely and critically, and which provides room for self-reflection. Another important goal of our courses is to encourage a change of perspective. One way of achieving this is by mainstreaming the comprehensive approach (civilian, police, military), which is made possible through our cooperation within the German Training Partner Platform .