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The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) has provided peace operations training to people across North, Central and South America – including a great deal of work in Canada at our training facility in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Since 1994, the PPC has trained civilian, military, and police intermediaries from Brazil to the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua to the USA and Mexico.
Through the funding of the Military Assistance Training Program, the PPC has developed and delivered a number of peace operations training courses for a Latin American audience, specifically built on a case study of Haiti. These courses are amended to suit each audience’s needs, and have helped develop and strengthen the delivery of education materials and training under the auspices of the U.N. An excellent example of this work is related to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH); in 2006, the PPC led an event that became a high level discussion opened by the Foreign Ministers from Brazil and Canada. The event explored how an integrated mission differs from earlier UN peace operations, drawing examples from a variety of UN missions in Haiti.
The PPC has delivered courses at The Chilean Joint Centre for Peacekeeping Operations in Santiago, the Argentine Joint Peace Keeping Operation Training Centre and the Inter-American Defence College in Washington, D.C. In November of 2005, military, police and civilians from 13 Latin American countries participated in the Human Rights in Peace Operations in Argentina – a course designed on the principle that the observance and protection of human rights is fundamental to peace operations.
For more information on the PPC’s work throughout The Americas, please send us an email.
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) has had police, civilian and military participants in its courses from 70% of the countries in Africa. From Malawi to Sierra Leone, and South Africa to Egypt, the PPC has worked from coast to coast with a number of African-based partner organizations to support the development of their long-term capacity for, and participation in, peace operations. Our most substantial collaborations in Africa have included:
The WAPP program assists civilian police organizations and gendarmerie in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Senegal, and Sierra Leone) in developing the structures, knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to manage the challenges of a post conflict environment. Perhaps the most remarkable and concrete evidence of the project’s impact is the dramatic rise in the number of civilian police contributions that these West African countries are making to UN and AU missions – up 327% from 2005 to 2007 – and the creation of the first ever all-female formed Nigerian police unit.
Two training institutions in Africa have benefited from programming delivered by the PPC: the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Ghana and the Ėcole de maintien de la paix (EMP) in Mali. The KAIPTC offers Ghanaian, regional and international participants the opportunity to examine specific peace operations issues, and Mali’s Ecole de Maintien de la Paix supports and develops the most relevant operational and strategic training for today’s peace operations.
The PPC has worked with its African partners to open 5 state-of-the-art peace operations documentation centres in Africa. These centres are a physical space where military, police and civilians from non-governmental organizations can come together and share knowledge about peace operations. Each centre provides meeting space, planning rooms, internet access and a library of resource materials. Please visit the web sites of the centres for peace in Mali and Burkina Faso for more information.
For more information about the PPC’s work in Africa, please send us an email.
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) has trained civilians, military and police from 70% of the countries in Europe. From Russia to Ireland and Sweden to Spain, the PPC has worked with organizations such as the European Union (EU) and NATO to deliver peace operations training across the continent.
The PPC has a history of knowledge exchange with peacekeeping professionals across Europe, including Sweden, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Ireland and Norway, and our staff has conducted study visits in Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo. The PPC’s research team has presented its work to governments, military leaders and Peacekeeping Training Centres in Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. We also serve as Canadian ambassadors, hosting guests from all over Europe – including visiting scholars from France, Croatia, Hungary and Germany.
In 2005, 190 international officers from the German / Netherlands Corps as well as many PPC staff participated in Exercise Indigo Sword – a simulation specifically customized to familiarize a European audience with peace support operations, as well as training them in conducting and executing a crisis response operation. Later that autumn, over 200 German officers participated in the PPC’s tailor-made Exercise Clever Lion in Ulm, Germany – a collaboration with the German Response Forces Operational Command.
In 2006, the PPC mounted a richly detailed, realistic scenario based on the PPC’s fictional world of Fontinalis. Involving over 50 PPC staff and facilitators, Exercise European Endeavour was the certification exercise for the headquarters of the European Union’s new stand-by battle group. Almost 900 German, Dutch and Finnish soldiers were engaged in the operation.
The PPC can customize a peace operations simulation for any group. Please send us an email.
The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (PPC) has a large international footprint, having trained over 15,000 individuals from 140 nations in 31 countries. The PPC has a history of shared knowledge and capacity building concerning peace operations in many Asian countries; we’ve had participants from Afghanistan, China, Guinea, India, Iraq, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines – to name only a few.
In its earliest days, the staff of PPC invested significant time in Japan pursuing academic ends. For instance, in 1995 the PPC led a presentation in Tokyo detailing the concept of the New Peacekeeping Partnership – a term created by the PPC to refer to those organizations and individuals who work together to improve the effectiveness of modern peace operations. Since that time, this integrated approach has been adapted by other peace operations training centres.
In the last half of the 20th century, when many organizations were setting goals for the new millennium, the PPC conducted a round table in Tokyo titled “Facing the Future: An International Peacekeeping Seminar.” The seminar, conducted in conjunction with DFAIT and the Canadian Embassy in Japan, engaged 100 Japanese military officers, government officials and academics, and the proceedings were published in both Japanese and English by the PPC’s in-house publisher, the Canadian Peacekeeping Press.
More recently, the PPC has been delivering peace operations training courses on Japanese soil. For instance, an “Early Warning: Early Response” course was designed for 15 highly experienced civilians at Hiroshima University in spring 2006. Participants analyzed emerging conflict zones and, using case studies on Japans’ previous involvement in peace operations, students were able to apply their new knowledge: most participants were deploying to peace operations shortly after its conclusion.