CUNPK - Important Landmarks

11th Annual Conference of International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centres (IAPTC).

11th Annual Conference of International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centres (IAPTC) was held at the Centre for UN Peacekeeping (CUNPK), USI from 25 to 28 Oct 2005. The theme of the conference was "Training for Peace: Cooperation and Coordination". 76 foreign participants from 33 countries across the globe along with 46 Indian participants drawn from military, police, civil, academia, research scholars, UN agencies and bureaucrats attended the conference. In this epochal event, the IAPTC Presidency has been bestowed on CUNPK and with the unanimous recommendations and approval of the Annual General Body, Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, Canada who had held the same since 1995, transferred the Secretariat of IAPTC to CUNPK. India (CUNPK) became the first country / institution to take over the Secretariat from Canada. Since taking over the Secretariat CUNPK has organised the Annual Conferences of IAPTC as under:-

1. 2006 - Chile
2. 2007 - Sweden
3. 2008 - Nigeria
4. 2009 - Australia
5. 2010 - Bangladesh
6. 2011 – USA (Being organized from 14th- 18th November 2011)