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KROSS Association

Bucharest - Romania

June 3rd, 2013 - November 29th, 2013

POTI-COTIPSO Resident Courses*

Title of Course: Global Terrorism

Course Description: This course is designed to offer students an introduction to the complex topic of global terrorism. The lectures are organized in brainstorming meetings, in which the students will receive a complete view of the following aspects terrorism: definition and essential elements, geopolitics, supporters and the use of force. (... more ...)

Course leader: Dr. Giovanni Ercolani

Title of Course: Peacekeeping and International Conflict

Course Description: This course is organized and designed to offer to the students an understanding of the field of Conflict Resolution and its application to peacekeeping intervention in contemporary international conflicts. (... more ...)

Course leader: Dr. Giovanni Ercolani

Title of Course: Human Security and Civil-military coordination (CIMIC)

Course Description: This course is designed to offer to the students an introduction to Human Security (HUMSEC) and Civil-military coordination (CIMIC) with the purpose to apply HUMSEC concepts to CIMIC. (... more ...)

Course leader: Dr. Giovanni Ercolani

Learning approach

The course is organised in 30 hours of classroom activity and 30 hours of self study. Students are tasked to participated in collaborative exercises and present their approaches on particular case studies, individually or as a workgroup.

Tuition Fee for 2013

For all categories of students, each course requires a fee of 250.EUR

Contact and registration

For any information, please contact our representative at resident-courses [at] kross.ro.

For registration, please use this registration form, addressing it to resident-courses [at] kross.ro.

* POTI-COTIPSO

The Peace Operations Training Institute(POTI) trains peacekeepers, humanitarian workers, United Nations staff, and other persons interested in global peace and security. They offer several courses, allowing anyone to study peacekeeping topics from anywhere in the world at any time. Students at POTI, concluding a classroom instruction (the courses above can be computed as classroom instruction), a distance education in twelve correspondent courses and a written thesis will receive a Certificate of Training in United Nations Peace Support Operations (COTIPSO). Military and civilian staff may take courses in preparation for deployment at a peacekeeping mission, or they can add to their knowledge while on mission. Thousands of students from over 182 nations have enrolled in correspondence courses from Peace Operations Training Institute so far.