This Wednesday morning, the students had the following instructions: "The Argentinean CIMIC Experience in PKO", delivered by Major Torrengo (Argentina); "CIMIC at MINUSTAH and at MONUSCO", by PhD Renata Giovannini; and "Media Relations", by Mr. Manoel de Almeida and journalist Damaris Giuliana, from UNIC Rio.
On the second day of the course, the students had the following instructions: OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) and UNCMCoord (United Nations Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination), delivered by Lieutenant Colonel Albino; UN CIMIC (United Nations Civil-Military Cooperation), delivered by Captain Bione; and at the end of the morning, U9 MINUSTAH (Humanitarian and Civil Affairs Office in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti), also delivered by Lieutenant Colonel Albino.
On September 09, the Course on Civil Military Coordination in PKO started. The students were welcomed by CCOPAB Deputy Commander, LTC SALOMÃO TAVARES DA SILVA, who gave a lecture.
There are 42 students taking part in the course, in which 12 are civilians, 28 are military personnel of the Brazilian Armed Forces and 02 are military personnel from friendly nations (one from Argentina and one from Chile).
On September 07, the Brazilian Peacekeeping Operations Joint Center (CCOPAB) took part in the civic-military parade, carried out on Presidente Vargas Avenue, in the center area of Rio de Janeiro. The parade celebrated the 191st year of Brazil's independence.
CCOPAB military personnel and members of the Brazilian Association of Former Members of the Suez Battalion and of the Association of Former Members of the Brazilian Detachment (Faibras) participated in the parade.
From August 26 to September 6, the Chief of the Doctrine Division in CCOPAB Commander (Brazilian Marines) Marcelo da Costa Reis participated as an instructor in the III United Nations Military Experts on Mission (III UNMEM), a course held in the facilities of the Unidad Escuela Misiones de Paz Del Ecuador (UEMPE, acronym in Spanish) in the city of Quito, Ecuador.
