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
18 February 2015
MSc lecture by Stephen Odhiambo Onyango
Stephen Odhiambo Onyango, M.Sc. Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iceland will give a lecture on his MSc project on Friday 20 February, 2014 at 13:00 at Orkusgarður, Grensásvegur 9, in Víðgelmir.
10 February 2015
Short Course on Geothermal Project Management in Ethiopia
The UNU-GTP is currently conducting a Short Course on Geothermal Project Management in Ethiopia for selected employees of the Geological Survey of Ethiopia (GSE), Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) and the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy (MWIE).
3 February 2015
Announcement of MSc and PhD fellowship recipients
The evaluation of the applications received from former UNU Fellows for UNU-GTP Fellowships for MSc and PhD studies in Iceland has now been done. There were 20 valid applications for MSc studies and 6 for the PhD studies, which shows the great interest for geothermal studies in Iceland.
3 February 2015
WGC2015 Fellowships
The World Geothermal Congress (WGC2015) will be held 19-25 April, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia.
This Congress has been held every 5 years since 1995 and as for the last three World Geothermal Congresses, the United Nations University Geothermal Training Programme is supporting a number of former UNU-GTP Fellows in attending the Congress in Melbourne.