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term plan covers the bien- open to diplomats and UNITAR. be quite exciting for the
nium 2008-2009. other officials. What international community.
about UN staff? Q: Do you have a spe-
Q: How do you promote cial message for the Q: Do you also want to
your programmes? Our courses are for benefi- international communi- be more involved with
ciaries in Member States. ty in Geneva? the Geneva academic
Mainly through our website, Sometimes they are directed community?
but also through our to people working in a parti- One of the things I am real-
catalogue ly looking forward to is to Correct! I have the advan-
distributed
cular area such as minis-
regularly to diplomatic tries, etc. Sometimes they make UNITAR known as a tage of knowing the acade-
missions, and through the are tailor-made correspon- major training institution to mic environment in Geneva
various branches of the ding to the request of a Geneva International, some- quite well, with a respecta-
organization. We are going Member State, but there are thing that is known and ble network of contacts. I
to develop a more powerful also courses that are open to contributes to the debate -- have already been in touch
website capable of anybody in the world. Of not just for training. I belie- with all the major players,
presenting our courses in a course, they have to go ve that for an organization and I think that we are going
much more attractive way through the selection pro- of our size, Geneva really to do a lot of things with the
so as to increase the number cess. This is, for instance, does not know about us. We academic institutions of
of "hits". the case of the course on need to change that. Thus, Geneva.
peace-keeping. That's one of we are looking forward to a
We have, for instance, an the reasons why the demand project that gives us high Q: What about the rest
online training course on is so high. visibility. We are working of the world? Can they
peace-keeping and we get carefully with UNOG on contact you too?
about 50,000 requests per However, there is one limi- launching a series of public
annum for this one alone. tation -- there is no training lectures every two months Absolutely! We are open for
So, you see, people know for UN staff. They have to on global topics that will business ... Please contact:
about it. go to the Staff College in constitute our contribution, www.unitar.org
Turin or a training but will also make us more
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