On March 18th, CCOPAB received the certificate from the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations concerning the preparation of United Nations Police which is included in the Experts on Mission Course (EPMP, acronym in Portuguese). The certificate, the fourth received by CCOPAB, was awarded in the Ministry of Defense by the Chief of the Armed Forces Joint Staff, Admiral Ademir Sobrinho to the CCOPAB Commander Colonel Carlos Augusto Ramires Teixeira.
From March 14 to 19, in the city of Bruehl, Germany, there was the pilot course to revise the United Nations Core Pre-Deployment Training Materials (CPTM). The goal of the course was to familiarize peace operations' instructors from Member States with the revised material, to test and validate the content.
Rio de Janeiro (RJ) – On Friday, March 18, the ceremony to deliver the certificates represented the end of the first Civil-Military Coordination Course (CIMIC) of 2016, which is part of the preparation of the 24th Brazilian Contingent of the United Nations Mission Stabilization in Haiti.
On March 09, 2016, the first coordination meeting with CCOPAB's partner institutions was carried out. The main goal was to establish an Annual Working Plan focusing on common activities related to Peace Operations. As the main conclusion, the idea is to create a network of researchers composed of members from the following institutions: CCOPAB, USP (University of São Paulo - SP), Igarapé Institute, UFF (Fluminense Federal University – RJ), PUC (Pontifical University – RJ), UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Estácio de Sá University (RJ)
On March 10, 2016, Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd) Carlos Alberto de Moraes Cavalcanti, Doctrine Adviser at the Brazilian Peace Operations Joint Training Center (CCOPAB), gave the lecture "The importance of the Brazilian participation in Peace Operations" to the students of the Defense Course at the Brazilian War College (ESG).
