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Our Mission

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

Peacekeeping Training

POTI specializes in training active peacekeepers, but we serve the entire peacekeeping community.
Join over 139,000 peacekeepers, United Nations staff, NGO personnel, members of the military, university students, and others worldwide by studying United Nations peace support, humanitarian relief, and security operations through our self-paced courses.
With over 680,500 enrolments and counting, you can be confident that the Peace Operations Training Institute is the place to expand your knowledge of peacekeeping related subjects.

You hear about the United Nations (U.N.) constantly in the news, although you might not always realize it. For example:

• "Peacekeeping" operations are sponsored by the United Nations. Currently, the U.N. has peacekeeping forces in more than a dozen different countries including Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Cyprus and Lebanon
•  U.N. agency that inspects the nuclear programs of nations to ensure that nuclear materials are not being diverted for military use.
• The Security Council is a U.N. organization that makes some of the most important international decisions on the planet.
• The Earth Summit and the Kyoto Protocol were U.N.-sponsored efforts -- the largest international environmental efforts ever.
• The U.N. document ratified by the members of the General Assembly.
• The World Court  in The Hague, the Netherlands, acts as the judicial portion of the United Nations and hears cases and international disputes from around the world.
• The w. h.o is a U.N. program.
•  is a U.N. program. Originally, UNICEF helped children affected by WWII.

The U.N. has this remarkable influence because nearly every nation on the planet is a member.
In this article, you will learn the basics of the United Nations so you can grasp the scope and reach of its operations. The next time you hear about the U.N. on the news, you will have a much better understanding of this international organization.