STORY: Mediation and Humanitarian

intervention workshop for senior AMISOM

military and police officers comes to a
close in Mogadishu
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LANGUAGE: SOMALI/NATURAL SOUND
DATELINE: 2015/12/04, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
SHOT LIST
1. Wide shot, senior AMISOM police officer making a
presentation
2. Med shot, senior AMISOM military and police officers
listen to the presentation
3. Close up, senior AMISOM female officer listens to the
presentation
4. Med shot, senior AMISOM military and police officers
listen to the presentation
5. Med shot, senior AMISOM police officer making a
presentation
6. Close up, white board
7. Wide shot, AMISOM Deputy Chief of Staff Col. Dahir
Aden Abrar giving his closing remarks
8. SOUNDBITE (English) AMISOM Deputy Chief of
Staff Col. Dahir Aden Abrar, We need to brace ourselves
to meet the challenges. Training on negotiation, mediation and
humanitarian intervention did not happen by a mistake but it
was planned for this period of our mandate to strengthen our
capacity

to

protect

civilians

through

effective

conflict

management, support peaceful solutions to disputes as well

as

effectively

coordinate

humanitarian

interventions

in

Somalia
9. Wide shot, senior AMISOM military officer making a
presentation

10.

Med shot, senior AMISOM military officer making a

presentation
11.
SOUNDBITE

(English)

AMISOMs

Ugandan

people's defense forces (UPDF) LT Dennis Kamugyene,

I have enjoyed this course about mediation and negotiation,
it has been so helpful and it has enhanced my skills. On behalf
of the institutions of UPDF and AMISOM in general, we have
gained a lot from the training. We managed to acquire skills in
handling conflicts that are at hand and definitely every one of
us benefitted from the same.
12.
SOUNDBITE
(English)

AMISOM

police

Superintendent of Police Shulla Omilade Aikhoje, It has

been enlightening to me because mostly I was sure of my
standards of operations (SOP) and I was thinking I can not be
able to operate outside the SOP. But with this training on
mediation and negotiation, now I have able to learn a new skill
again that there are ways we peacekeepers can act still legally
in line with our SOP but a little bit different from being rigid. I
have equally learnt that we cannot all be a negotiator but
most of us could be a mediator.
13.
Wide shot,AMISOM Deputy Chief of Staff Col. Dahir
Aden Abrar giving his closing remarks
14.
Wide shot, senior AMISOM military and police
leaving the venue
STORY
Senior military and police officers from the African Union Mission in
Somalia (AMISOM) have completed a three-day course on Mediation,
Coordination and Humanitarian intervention.
At least 26 senior AMISOM military and police officers drawn from
troop contributing countries attended the workshop, whose trainers
are from the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of
Disputes (ACCORD).
AMISOM Deputy Chief of Staff Col. Dahir Aden Abrar officially closed
the three day workshop which started on 02 December 2015. He
applauded the participants for acquiring the much needed

knowledge on conflict management and positive resolution of

disputes.
We need to brace ourselves to meet the challenges. Training on
negotiation, mediation and humanitarian intervention did not
happen by a mistake but it was planned for this period of our
mandate to strengthen our capacity to protect civilians through
effective conflict management, support peaceful solutions to
disputes as well as effectively coordinate humanitarian interventions
in Somalia
One of the participants, Superintendent of Police Shulla Omilade
Aikhoje from AMISOM police said she had gained more knowledge
on mediation, negotiation and humanitarian intervention.
It has been enlightening to me because mostly, I was sure of my
standards of operations (SOPs) and I was thinking I can not be able
to operate outside the SOP. But with this training on mediation and
negotiation, now I have able to learn new skills, that there are ways
we peacekeepers can act legally within our SOP without being rigid.
I have equally learnt that we cannot all be a negotiator but most of
us could be a mediator,she stated.
Another participant, Lt. Dennis Kamugyene, echoed similar
sentiments.
I have enjoyed this course about mediation and negotiation, it has
been so helpful and it has enhanced my skills. We managed to
acquire skills in handling conflicts that are at hand and definitely
every one of us benefitted from the same, he said
At the successful completion of the three-day workshop, the officers
felt better knowledgeable at understanding the evolution of conflict,
general approaches to responding to conflict, conflict analysis,
evolution of peacekeeping, conflict prevention, conflict resolution
and the interfaces between peacemaking, peacekeeping, peace
enforcement and peacebuilding, as well as humanitarian
intervention.
END