2 March 2015
UN Peace Operations and the Use of Force: Issues, Lessons and Prospects
Mats Berdal, Professor of Security & Development at King‘s College London, and UNU-GEST board member gave public talk entitled “UN Peace Operations and the Use of Force – Issues, Lessons and Prospects” on Friday 13 February 2015. The talk considered one of the principal issues facing the High-Level Panel on UN Peace Operations, which was set up in 2014: whether or not UN forces should prepare for, and engage in, more robust peacekeeping, perhaps even be prepared to take on a war-fighting role.
1 March 2015
Mbeko: “Gender is a development issue”
Mzati-Kidney Mbeko, a 2014 graduate from the UNU-GEST diploma programme has been appointed the National Coordinator of Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA) in Malawi. In late August, Mr. Mbeko was interviewed by The Nation, one of the most widely read
15 January 2015
New fellows for 2015 diploma programme
The 2015 UNU-GEST Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies has begun with the arrival of ten fellows who will be participating in the programme this year. The fellows come from Malawi, Mozambique, Palestine (West Bank) and Uganda. The fellows work for various government ministries, human rights and civil society organizations, as well as UN institutions.
2 January 2015
News from UNU-GEST fellows in Malawi
In May 2014, fourteen fellows from Malawi, Mozambique, Palestine and Uganda graduated from the UNU-GEST Programme. Since then they have been busy promoting gender equality and implementing projects and ideas developed during their training at the UNU-GEST Programme