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New name, same courses

UNITAR POCI is now the Peace Operations Training Institute. We are pleased to continue to provide all the same training courses on peacekeeping as we have done for the past fifteen years and as was recently welcomed by the United Nations Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (C34). Here is what you should know:

  • We still offer the same courses.
  • Your existing enrolments are still valid.
  • We are still accepting new enrolments under our new name.

We are working hard to make this a quick and smooth transition. In the meantime, you may continue to see the name “UNITAR POCI” in some places. Thank you for your support.

Why? Click here to read more.

General information

UNITAR POCI trains peacekeepers, humanitarian workers, United Nations staff, and other persons interested in global peace and security. We publish and distribute several courses, allowing anyone to study peacekeeping topics from anywhere in the world at his own pace. Military and civilian staff may take courses in preparation for deployment at a peackeeping mission, or they can add to their knowledge while they are in the field.

There were recently as many as 102 000 UN personnel serving on twenty United Nations peacekeeping missions. Thousands of students from over 182 nations have enrolled in correspondence courses from UNITAR POCI.

How our training works

  1. Enrol in a course online through one of our training programmes.
  2. Download the course text.
  3. Read and study at your own pace.
  4. Take the End-of-Course Examination online.
  5. If you pass, you receive a UNITAR POCI Certificate of Completion.

Students from anywhere in the world can enrol in one or more courses online through one of our many training programmes. Each course comes as a single self-contained text. Students study at their own pace. To complete a course, one must pass the online End-of-Course Examination, a series of fifty multiple-choice questions. Students who score 75% or better earn a Certificate of Completion bearing their names and the titles of the courses passed. Their names also appear on our honour roll.

More about UNITAR and UNITAR POCI

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is an autonomous body within the United Nations with a mandate to enhance the effectiveness of the UN. UNITAR provides training to assist countries in meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century; researches innovative training and capacity-building approaches; and forms partnerships with other UN agencies, governments, and non-governmental organisations to develop and implement programmes that meet individual countries' needs. Each year, UNITAR reaches out to a large number of individuals and institutions in Member States as well as staff of Permanent Missions to the United Nations.

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research Programme of Correspondence Instruction (UNITAR POCI) is a training programme within UNITAR.