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NATO Lessons Learned Staff Officer Course (LL SOC) at the SWE International Centre (SWEDINT)

The Sphere Handbook in Action e-learning course aims to strengthen the effective use of the Sphere Handbook, Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response

Danish Army Fire Support Centre is responsible for CIMIC in the Danish Armed Forces, including NORDEFCO CIMIC Course

The Finnish Defence Forces International Centre FINCENT organises military crisis management courses for command and expert personnel in UN, NATO and EU led crisis management operations

LINGOs is a consortium of over 65 international humanitarian relief, development, conservation and health organizations. LINGOs provides the latest learning technologies and courses from our partners so these non profits can increase the skill levels of their employees, and therefore increase the impact of their programs

MapStory, as a compliment to Wikipedia, is a new dimension to the global data commons that empowers a global user community to organize all knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. Perhaps more important, MapStory is an infrastructure for enabling "MapStorytelling" as a means of communicating important issues to a global audience. The goal is to enable any student, teacher or practitioner on Earth to tap the power of this new mode of conveying one's stories, arrayed across geography and as they unfold over time. MapStory will become the convening point where MapStorytellers of all kinds come to publish their expressions, and to critique each others' MapStories, leading to a consistently accumulating and improving global body of knowledge about global dynamics, worldwide, over the course of history.

This training course is in response to the report, Greening the Blue Helmets: Environment, Natural Resources and UN Peacekeeping Operations, released by UNEP. The report analyses how peacekeeping missions around the world affect, and are affected by natural resources and the broader environment, and notes that through the adoption of a 2009 Environmental Policy, UN Peacekeeping has a robust platform for progress in reducing its environmental impact