CCOPAB promotes another edition of the Course for Journalists in Conflict Areas
Integration!! This is the word that best defines the heterogeneous group who concluded the 4th edition of the Course for Journalists in Conflict Areas at the Brazilian Peacekeeping Operations Joint Center (CCOPAB) from May 23 to 27, 2011. This group consisted of 06 military personnel (02 from the Brazilian Navy and 04 from the Brazilian Army), 28 known journalists and young people who have recently graduated, from different media (newspapers – o Estado de São Paulo, Folha de São Paulo, Extra, Diário Popular – magazines - Revista Piauí, Veja – TV channels - Rede TV, Rede Globo, TV Band, TV Record and TV Tribuna).
The United Nations established May 29 as the International Day of UN Peacekeepers due to the fact that in 1948 the UN Security Council authorized the first peacekeeping operation in Palestine, after the ceasefire for the Arab-Israeli conflict. Since then, the UN gather men and women of the armed forces of its member countries, which live in political, economical, and social stability, in order to contribute to the end of conflicts, social progress, and the defense of human rights in the endangered nations.
Sport was the theme of the Course of Civil-Military Cooperation in Peacekeeping Operations which took place from 16 to 20 of May at the Brazilian Peacekeeping Operations Joint Center (CCOPAB). Around 50 people – among researchers, athletes and military personnel from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile – debated on how to promote physical activities in areas of armed conflict to develop social values and foment peace. Edmond Mulet, the former representative of the UN Secretary-General in Haiti, Igor Kipman, the Brazilian ambassador in Haiti and General Enzo Martins Peri, Army Commander were present at the closing ceremony.
From 02 to 13 of May, 2011, CPT David Crispim de Carvalho, from CCOPAB´s Contingent Section, attended the Train of Trainers Course given by CAECOPAZ (acronym in Spanish for the Argentine Peace Support Training Center). The course aims at standardizing training methodology in UN´s Peacekeeping Operations.
On May 6, 2011, CCOPAB carried out the Parade for Beret Handouts to the recruits incorporated in 2011´s year of instruction. The ceremony counted on the presences of the recruits´ family members and friends. During the event CEL Pessôa handed the beret to Private Ricardo da Conceição Eugênio Junior, who was the most distinguished soldier during Basic Combat Training. In the ceremony, CCOPAB´s commander made a speech in which he highlighted the importance of the family as society´s basic institution.
On May 02, 2011, the Brazilian Peacekeeping Operations Joint Center (acronym in Portuguese: CCOPAB) carried out the promotion ceremony of its Deputy Commander, Captain (Marines) Alexandre ABALLO Nunes, whose promotion took place according to Brazilian Navy´s Directive No. 137 issued on April 28 of this year. At that moment, the Commander of the Center, Colonel Pedro Aurélio de PESSÔA, invited Captain LUCIANI de Souza Aballo Nunes, the Deputy Commander´s wife, to participate in the epaulette change.