Pre-Deployment Course Sahel

This intensive 4-day pre-deployment training course is designed for experts being deployed to the Sahel region, focusing on Niger. The course is open to experts from institutions working in the area of civilian crisis management in the region.

The overall objectives of the pre-deployment training are to create a common understanding of the assignment among all participants and prepare their deployment to the Sahel region. While the training will focus on Niger, it also will cover the region’s cultural, societal and political context, regional and international actors involved in crisis management and the areas of Security Sector Reform as well as Human Rights and Rule of Law in the Sahel region. The course will specifically adress the EU CSDP mission building phase in the region. At the end of the course all mission members and other course participants will have a common understanding of the EU’s policy strategy in the country and region, current state of play, the mission’s mandate and a specific understanding of each their tasks and responsibilities.

The course is made up of the following four modules:

  • Introductions
  • Niger/Sahel State of play today
  • Strategic Challenges of civilian crisis management in the region
  • Operational Challenges of civilian crisis management in the region

By focusing on the challenges of the mission build up, the course aims to equip the course participants with the essential tools, knowledge and information necessary to complete the mission build up and enable them to operate smoothly in the area of assignment.


Implementing Partners

Lead implementing body: Royal Institute for International Relations (Egmont Institute), Belgium

Other partner implementing bodies: Center for International peace Operations (ZIF), Germany

 

Date and Location

17 - 20 July 2012; Brussels, Belgium

 

Registration Fee

Short-listed candidates will have to pay a registration fee of 100 EUR to secure their seat in the course.

 

Application

Please apply using the ENTRi database

Deadline: 09.07.2012

 

last Update: 04 July 2012