KAIPTC engages stakeholders on new programmes

The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) has launched the Department of Applied Research and Innovation in Peace and Security (DARIPS), a new standalone entity created to deepen research output and strengthen policy responses to security challenges across West Africa.

He added that research from the centre had previously fed into discussions at the Kofi Annan Peace and Security Forum and informed regional policy conversations, and that the department had existing collaboration with institutions such as the National Defence College and the ECOWAS Commission."The Department of Applied Research and Innovation in Peace and Security has been established to deepen the centre's research footprint, to sharpen the policy relevance of our work and to ensure that what we produce within these walls speaks directly to the realities you confront in your own institutions, agencies and communities," Brig.