21 January - 07 February 2008
Cornwallis Park, Nova Scotia, Canada
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The SMC is a 3-week learning opportunity focused on UN integrated peace operations and designed to enhance the operational effectiveness of mission planning. Participants (senior civilian, military and police) will be introduced to the processes of providing strategic and operational advice in the development phase of a contemporary UN peace operation.
SMC is for experienced peace professionals who are interested in an exciting learning experience with practical application to contemporary peace operations.
If you have already registered:
- Click here for JOINING INSTRUCTIONS
- Click here for COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Target Audience:
- Civilians (public servants, NGO representatives, IO representatives)
- Military (senior foreign military officers)
- Police (commissioned officers)
How you will learn:
- Through a unique combination of seminars and practical exercises conducted in English
- Through course material
- Through course facilitators
- Through each other
What you will learn:
- How to understand the variety of factors that impact the formation of a peace operation
- Who are the players
- Where and when to intervene
- What drives the processes of the UN Security Council
- How to build a Secretary General’s report
- How to understand and analyze a Secretary General’s report
Who will facilitate the learning environment:
(click on names for bios)
- Brigadier-General (ret'd) Chris Day, British Armed Forces
- Chris Day contributes a remarkable experience in active, participant-centred learning which has ranged from working with young soldiers, teaching prospective officers, and as a senior member of staff at the Army Staff College, Camberley. He has demonstrated his outstanding skills and leadership in a variety of positions including Chief of Reconnaissance for the NATO Rapid Reaction Corp, commanding the British Army’s Armour Centre and as the UK’s Defence Adviser in Canada. Chris Day has a life-long interest in the practice of leadership and works as a consultant to the UK's Work Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation with expertise in research and practical consultancy and leadership interventions which exists to campaign for Good Work.
- Ambassador (ret'd) Michel Duval
- Michel Duval brings to the SMC a rich diplomatic experience, which includes postings as Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in New York, where he chaired the Working Group of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping and led the implementation of the Brahimi Report. Prior to his assignment to the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations, he served as Haiti Coordinator (January 1996-July 1997) when Canada took command of the UN Peacekeeping mission, and as Director of the International Security and Peacekeeping Division (1996-1997). Michel Duval recently concluded his diplomatic career as Canada’s Ambassador to Lebanon.
- Tetsuo Theodore (Ted) Itani, Humanitarian Advisor
- Mr. Itani was commissioned into the Canadian Army (Militia) in 1957 and transferred to the Regular Force in 1959. He served with NATO in Europe on three separate assignments and held various command, general staff, joint staff and instructional posts during his 37-year career. He is a graduate of the Canadian Army Staff College and NATO Defense College, Rome, Italy. Mr. Itani is married to Canadian novelist and poet Frances Itani.
- Mick O'Brien, former Australian military and ICRC delegate
- Mick O’Brien brings to the SMC four decades of experience in humanitarian and military affairs. His military career includes appointments such as senior instructor at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, Chief of Staff of the Deployable Joint Force Headquarters, and commander of the Australian contingent to the Middle East. United Nations service includes periods as a military observer on the Golan (based in Syria), as Chief of the United Nations Liaison Office in Beirut, and as Chief of the Observer Group Lebanon. He has worked with several NATO armies in Europe, in the Persian Gulf, and extensively in South-east Asia and the Pacific. After twenty five years in the Australian military, Mick joined the ICRC where over the course of seven years he conducted a variety of humanitarian field work, including teaching International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law to the military and police in Central Asia (based in Tajikistan), in South-eastern Europe (based in Sarajevo and Skopje); in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan (where he was also the ICRC’s in-country security advisor for two years).ajor General (ret'd) Klaas C. Roos, Dutch Army
- Major General (ret’d) Klaas C. Roos
- Klaas Roos contributes an exceptional experience in peace operations both in the field at the United Nations Headquarters. His operational experience included appointments as Force Provost Marshal of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in the Sinai desert, Egypt, Chief Operations Officer of the Civilian Police component of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group in Namibia. (UNTAG) and head of the Civilian Police component of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) where he served for 18 months. Klaas Roos has intimate knowledge of the working of the United Nations, having served as Military Adviser of the Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the United Nations in New York, member of the Netherlands delegation to the Security Council, and for two years chaired the The Mine Action Support Group (MASG). Mgen Roos has an accomplished track record in imparting the lessons of experience, having previously facilitated PPC courses and served as Senior Operations Officer at the Defense Staff in The Hague, in charge of international peace and humanitarian operations.
Course Fee and Registration:
- $10,500.00 (includes materials, accommodations, meals and field trips)
- Click here for REGISTRATION FORM
Note for MTAP participants: This course will be delivered in ENGLISH ONLY. Click here for detailed language requirements.
Registration inquiries:
Diane Richer
(613) 520-5617 ext. 5936
dricher@peaceoperations.org
Military / MTAP inquiries:
Major Yvan Pichette
(613) 520-5617 ext. 5940
ypichett@peaceoperations.org