EUROPE

Organized by the European Union Police Services Training (EUPST), this course includes several modules covering topics such as the concept and policy framework of SSR, strengthening governance and accountability within the police services, analyzing and designing police support programmes, dilemmas and challenges when supporting police reform etc. Interactive co-learning methodologies and concrete case studies that encourage participants to share their own experiences will be used throughout the course.

The Centre of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) will host the fourth annual meeting of the  European Association for Peace Operations Training  Centres (EAPTC) from 3-4 May in Vicenza, Italy. The meeting will bring together EAPTC members and partners in a bid to discuss latest trends and developments in peace operations trainings and share information on ongoing activities.

DCAF-ISSAT has been a founding member of the European Association for Peace Operations Training Centres (EAPTC). Since, it has been a regular contributor to the EAPTC Annual Meetings. In 2014 DCAF-ISSAT organised the EAPTC Annual Meeting in Stans, Switzerland.  The 2016 meeting will provide the opportunity to interact with like-minded institutions, explore potential partnership and showcase DCAF-ISSAT products and services. 

Understand to Prevent (U2P) was one of ten lines of development in the Multinational Capability Development Campaign (which consists of mostly NATO and like-minded nations – see also the MCDC website). The U2P line of development sought to elaborate the role that militaries can adopt, in partnership with other governmental departments and civil society, in preventing violent conflict.

The first iteration of meetings (in the last two-year cycle) produced the capstone ‘doctrine’ embodied in the Understand to Prevent Foundation Studies book linked below. Subsequently, the meetings sought to operationalise the doctrine into a more tangible Handbook of tools and process. Most of the military representatives involved came from their national concepts and doctrine development centres, so there was plentiful scope for open and out-of-the box thinking.

• U2P Foundation Studies book – an informative and concise delve into the theory and evidence supporting of prevention of violent conflict;
• The Understand to Prevent concept (short paper).

In January 2016, the U2P Handbook is looked at interoperability with the NATO Comprehensive Operational Planning Directive (COPD), and with NATO CIMIC doctrine and processes.

Further opportunities to trial the Handbook are welcome.

For full access to the U2P Handbook Understand to Prevent: the military contribution to the prevention of violent conflict, updated in 2017, kindly follow the link.