CCOPAB promotes International Workshop of High-Level Panel on Peacekeeping Operations
The Peacekeeping operations are a sum of efforts of the international community to solve conflicts pacifically. Therefore, there was an International Workshop of High-Level Panel on the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations on 8 and 9 November. The event was held in the Land Operations Command (COTER, acronym in Portuguese) and had the participation of representatives from the following countries: Argentina, Canada, Colombia, the United States, France, Norway, United Kingdom, Sweden and Uruguay.
The workshop was fruit of a cooperation between the Brazilian Peace Operations Joint Training Center (CCOPAB, acronym in Portuguese), Igarape Institute and the International Relations Research Center of the University of São Paulo (NUPRI-USP, acronym in Portuguese), supported by COTER, through the Peacekeeping Division/3rd Subdivision.
The opening was carried out by General Paulo Humberto Cesar de Oliveira, COTER Commander. Minister Maria Luisa Escorel de Moraes, Head of the Peace and International Security Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colonel Carlos Augusto Ramires Teixeira, CCOPAB Commander, and Mrs. Eduarda Passarelli Hamann, Coordinator of the Peacebuilding Program at Igarape Institute were present as well.
Translation: LT Eduarda Coelho
