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.

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Honour Roll Highlight

Congratulations to GARCIA CARDONA DANNY, from Colombia, for being one of the latest students to complete our peacekeeping training course Historia de las Operaciones de Mantenimiento de Paz 1945–1987.

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Lt Carolina Céspedes Benavente, Chile, provides a student testimonial about POTI's training. Course Author Webinar with Maj. (Ret.) Don Leslie. Major Million Ndlovu, Zimbabwe National Defence College, provides a student testimonial about POTI's training. Watch former Executive Director of UN Women Michelle Bachelet introduce our <em>SCR 1325</em> courses. Watch Major General (ret.) Tim Ford, Royal Australian Army introduce his course, <em>Commanding United Nations Peacekeeping Operations</em>.

Lt Carolina Céspedes Benavente, Chile, provides a student testimonial about POTI's training.

Course Author Webinar with Maj. (Ret.) Don Leslie.

Major Million Ndlovu, Zimbabwe National Defence College, provides a student testimonial about POTI's training.

Watch former Executive Director of UN Women Michelle Bachelet introduce our SCR 1325 courses.

Watch Major General (ret.) Tim Ford, Royal Australian Army introduce his course, Commanding United Nations Peacekeeping Operations.

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A field mission (Submitted by Mustafa MUSTAFA).

WAZIRI TENGA submitted this photo.

MINUSTAH Recce Flight (Submitted by Ali Hussein Al-zyout).

Nigerian police officer serving in Peacekeeping Operation at Zalingei Central, Darfur, Sudan (Submitted by JAMILA BUKAR).

Ricardo Ferreira Campos submitted this photo.

Prospective students.

Interested in finding out more about POTI training before signing up?
Group training licenses.

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Distribute your training.

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Prospective students.

Interested in finding out more about POTI training before signing up? Learn more.

Group training licenses.

Do you have an entire group of individuals that you would like to have trained? Learn more.

Distribute your training.

Do you want POTI to use your training material? Learn more.

Show your support.

There are numerous ways that you can contribute to the peacekeeping effort. Learn more.