The Training for Peace in Africa programme (TfP) is an international peacekeeping capacity building and policy development initiative. Its primary purpose is to contribute towards the building of civilian and police capacities for the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU). Within the programme NUPI’s main responsibility is research and policy development, in cooperation with African partners who conduct the training and capacity building projects as well as research.
NUPI’s research seeks to contribute to the development of doctrine for peace operations, knowledge building and lessons learned from peacekeeping operations on the African continent, development of civilian and police peacekeeping know-how and capacity on peacekeeping operations and analysis of African states and the African security architecture.
At NUPI the programme focuses on three areas of priority:
In addition, NUPI’s activities in the programme are informed by the cross-cutting themes of gender and sexual based violence and North/South relations.
The programme consists of an international network of partners including the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), the African Civilian Response Capacity for Peace Support Operations (AFDEM) and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo.
The programme is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
To learn more about the programme, visit www.trainingforpeace.org
Civilian Capacity
The project seeks to generate knowledge on the challenges facing civilian capacities within UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, as well as recommending ways in which they can be addressed. More
Peacekeeping & Peacebuilding Nexus
This project will focus on synergies and challenges of the transition between peacekeeping and peacebuilding. More
Protection of Civilians
This project seeks to contribute to ongoing process of mainstreaming the Protection of Civilians into the African Peace and Security Architecture. More
Gender Dynamics in Peace Operations (MONUC)
The project builds on earlier fieldwork in the DRC and the security sector reform (SSR) processes in the country. The project will examine the development of a Congolese security sector as the major perpetrator group of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). More
The Hybridization of Peace Operations in Africa and the Protection of Civilians: Towards Coherent Doctrines?
This project will investigate how the ongoing UN/AU hybrid mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the current operational restraints of African forces pose challenges to the emerging doctrine of integrated UN missions, as well as the practical challenges encountered at the doctrinal level in terms of standardizing two different rationales (AU and UN) into a common doctrine. More
The Protection of Civilians and the Coordination of Efforts: Challenges from a Field Perspective
The aim of the study is to consolidate the knowledge available on the practice and training towards an efficient protection of civilians in peace operations by civilians and police personnel. More
- Schia, Niels Nagelhus, Neumann, Hannah (2012). Liberian case-study field report . Oslo, NUPI. 48 pages. Security in Practice 6 · 2012. The report examines how the UN peacebuilding mission in Liberia (UNMIL) can be implemented with good local-level ownership.
- Karlsrud, John , Felix da Costa, Diana (2012). Moving towards local-level peacebuilding?. Oslo, NUPI. 53 pages. Security in Practice 5 · 2012. In this case-study report Felix da Costa and Karlsrud examine early peacebuilding activities and local circumstances in South Sudan. The report seeks to elucidate some core research questions developed jointly by NUPI and UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations Best Practices.
- Karlsrud, John , Felix da Costa, Diana (2012). UN local peacebuilding and transition in Haiti. Oslo, NUPI. 51 pages. Security in Practice 4 · 2012. In this report Felix de Costa and Karlsrud examine the UN peacekeeping operations in Haiti, assessing how the UN could maneuver to help establish good local governance institutions with community-based ownership.
- Eggen, Øyvind , Ole Jacob Sending
(2012). Global helse,
i Internasjonal Politikk 2/2012
.Oslo,Universitetsforlaget.p. 208-217.Sending og Eggen diskuterer i denne artikkelen hvordan global helse som felt de siste årene har fått økt status i utenrikspolitikken og i akademia. [url] - Nikolaisen, Trine , John Karlsrud (2011). Ti år i Afghanistan - hva nå?. Oslo, Utenriksdepartementet. 32 pages. Rapporten oppsummerer innholdet i Sikkerhetspolitisk konferanse 2011 som handlet om Afghanistan. Rapporten er strukturert rundt to hovedspørsmål: Hva har Norge og vesten oppnådd i Afghanistan, og hva har vi lært.
- de Coning, Cedric H.
(2011). Civilian Peacekeeping Capacity: Mobilizing Partners to Match Supply and Demand,
in International Peacekeeping, Volume 18, Issue 5
.Taylor&Francis.p. 577-592.This article proposes the formation of a global civilian capacity partnership that brings together the training and roster community, the UN Secretariat and a grouping of interested states, with the aim of significantly improving the UN Secretariat's ability to identify, recruit and deploy suitably qualified civilian personnel. [url] - Stensland, Andreas Øien , Cedric H. de Coning, Kjeksrud, Stian, Ravndal, Jacob Aasland, Lotze, Walter, Weir, Erin A. (2011). Protection of civilians in armed conflict. Oslo, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). 59 pages. This report provides a comprehensive overview and comparison of current Protection of Civilians-activities and practises among the most relevant international- and non-governmental organisations.
- Schia, Niels Nagelhus, Stang, Geral (2011). Historical Overview of Civil Affairs in UN Peace Operations. NUPI Working Paper: . 44 pages.
- Karlsrud, John , Morten Dehli Andreassen (2011). Bakgrunnsdokument: Ti år i Afghanistan - hva nå?. Oslo, NUPI. 16 pages. Rapport om hva det internasjonale bidraget har bragt Afghanistan og veien videre.
- Sending, Ole Jacob, Iver B. Neumann
(2011). Banking on power: how some practices in an international organization anchor others,
in (ed.) Emanuel Adler and Vincent Pouliot International Practices
.Cambridge University Press.p. 231-254.The article focuses on the practices that structure the relations between states and international organizations and seeks to capture the situated and contextualized character of how states operate within IOs, and how IOs operate vis-à-vis states. Crucially, the question of possible IO authority and autonomy may then be analyzed as the effects of concrete practices rather than as emanating from a priori defined features of IOs and/or states. [url]