Free Online Course: Preventing Violence Against Women and Promoting Gender Equality

Peace Operations Training Institute is offering a free Online Course: Preventing Violence Against Women and Promoting Gender Equality. This course aims to assist peacekeeping personnel in promoting the human rights and security of women and girls. It does so through lessons emphasizing the nature and scope of violence against women and girls around the globe, the connections between gender inequality and violence in both public and domestic spaces as well as on interpersonal, community, national, regional, and international levels. 

Course Content:

• lessons cover women's rights as human rights.
• The international United Nations mandate to involve women in key roles within peacemaking and peacebuilding processes at every stage and every level of authority. 
• Readings and case studies provide examples to assist peacekeeping personnel with considering how they, as individuals and as teams, can work to promote gender equality and to change the attitudes and behaviours that perpetuate violence. 
• It does so through lessons emphasizing the nature and scope of violence against women and girls around the globe, the connections between gender inequality and violence in both public and domestic spaces as well as on interpersonal, community, national, regional, and international levels.

ِAbout Peace Operations Training Institute:

The Peace Operations Training Institute provides globally accessible and affordable distance-learning courses on peace support, humanitarian relief, and security operations. The institute committed to bringing essential, practical knowledge to military personnel, police, and civilians working toward peace worldwide.

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