Women, Peace and Security: Online Free Course

This free online course is a new module part of the "I Know Gender" online course. This module addresses the importance of promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women during conflict, peace operations and negotiations. After completing the module Women, Peace and Security, learners will be able to: 1) Recognize gender, peace and security issues and women's rights in armed conflict and humanitarian settings; 2) Identify the relevant Women, Peace and Security global policies and legal documents; 3) Identify suitable implementation mechanisms at the global, regional and national levels; 4) Recognize the roles and mandates of different UN entities and other actors in relation to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Training Type: Self-Paced
Target Audience: Open to all interested specifically United Nations System, Peace and Security personnel, Humanitarian Staff

Online Free Course on Creativity

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Description: This free online course on Creativity is designed to explore several factors that stimulate and inhibit creativity in individuals, teams, and organizations. In each session we will focus on a different variable related to creativity, such as framing problems, challenging assumptions, and creative teams

Training Type: Instructor-Led Online
Target Audience: Open to all

Online Free Course on Writing in the Sciences

Description: This free online course teaches scientists to become more effective writers, using practical examples and exercises. Topics include: principles of good writing, tricks for writing faster and with less anxiety, the format of a scientific manuscript, and issues in publication and peer review

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all

Online Free Course in 21 Steps to Building a Web Business

This free online course covers the skills and techniques needed to create a successful online Web business. It describes the process of developing an online business in a non-technical and step-by-step manner. This course will teach you how to build a website in 21 days. It will help you understand the functionality of a website, teach you to how to properly upload web-friendly files to the web, and how to use FileZilla to successfully upload your website online. Understand important concepts such as choosing the correct domain name and how to host your account. You will also learn new techniques on how to make money from your online web business.
Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all interested. The course is ideal for those who've always wanted to create an online Web business but lack the skills or knowledge to do it.

Online Free Fundamentals of Project Management

After completing this online free course you will understand the history of project management and learn from examples of interviews with project managers. This course will teach you the process of the systems development life cycle to help identify problems and create solutions in each stage of the projects life including planning, analysis, design, implementation and evaluation. You will gain a good knowledge of project management methodology. You will be able to identify and understand the most important tools used by a project manager including GANTT charts, PERT Diagrams, estimating activity time, scheduling, expediting and Critical Path Method. You will gain a good knowledge of program, system, technical, user, paper-based, electronic and media project management documentation. You will learn about different issues that can occur when an information system is changed or a new sytem is introduced.

Online Free Introductory Course on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

This online free course was originally developed by the United States Institute for Peace to provide training for U.S. candidates for positions with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and its Rapid Expert Assistance and Cooperation Teams (REACT) in particular. The course includes substantial information on the OSCE's principal areas of operation, including Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.
Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all interested

Online Free Course in Use of Digital Tools in Public Service Reporting

This online free course will get the Participants learn how to identify and adapt emerging technologies; Twitter basics; Understanding and using social media; Reporting through crowdsourcing; Understanding and using mobile, SMS and location-aware services; Visual storytelling techniques; Mapping and mashups for beginners; Writing for the real-time Web; Online video production. The best 28 participants in the online course will then be invited to Cairo for a digital media “boot camp,” where they will have access to experts in technology, multimedia and online marketing who will help them create multimedia projects in public service journalism to illustrate the issues that affect ordinary people in their everyday lives

Training Type: Instructor-Led Online

Target Audience: Open to all journalists, citizen journalists and civil society actors from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, West Bank/Gaza, and Yemen

Online Free Course in Interfaith Conflict Resolution

This online free course is designed to enhance the peacemaking capacities of individuals and faith-based organizations by focusing on objectives, methods, and best practices of interfaith dialogue, a form of religious peacemaking increasingly recognized for its relevance to 21st Century conflict. The course applies general principles of faith-based peacemaking to two case studies, highlighting interfaith peacemaking efforts between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, as well as the role that various faith communities played in helping to bring and end to the 36-year internal armed conflict in Guatemala.

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all interested

Online Free Course in Conflict Analysis

This online free course presents an introduction to the subject of conflict analysis, illustrating analytical tools used, with reference to two extended case studies, the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda. After completing this course, you will gain proficiency in the following skills:

• Classifying phases of conflict using the curve of conflict
• Identifying interventions appropriate to different phases of a conflict
• Analyzing the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda using terms and concepts from the curve of conflict
• Generating a thorough set of characteristics for describing conflict using an analytical framework
• Analyzing the conflict in Kosovo and the genocide in Rwanda using terms and concepts from the framework
• Analyzing unfamiliar conflicts using terms and concepts from the curve and framework

Course in Touch Typing Skills

This online free course is a professional typing tutor that helps you to increase your typing speed and accuracy. It takes very little time to learn the basics of touch typing, allowing you to develop a skill that we help you for a lifetime! Save yourself hours of time and learn to touch type!

Training Type: Self-Paced

Target Audience: Open to all interested