JRR coordinating group and training Meeting

29 September 2008

On 29 September 2008, No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), in its capacity as Interim JRR Secretariat, organised the second meeting of the JRR Coordinating Group, kindly hosted by the German Centre for International Peace Operations (ZIF) in Berlin.  The meeting was convened as a follow-up to the second JRR Coordinating Group meeting in Brussels on 30 April 2008.  

The purpose of the meeting was twofold:

1. to develop the essential elements of a JRR Pilot Training Course, including in particular the content of the training curriculum and a draft schedule for the training course; and

2. to meet as the Coordinating Group to make recommendations in relation to the JRR Pilot Training Course and the next meeting of the JRR Policy Group.

At the conclusion of the day-long meeting, participants adopted, ad referendum, an outcome document that made various recommendations in relation to the two purposes of the meeting, for circulation to and adoption by the JRR Coordinating Group, on a no-objection basis.  The outcome document was circulated on 10 October 2008 and the recommendations therein were formally adopted, through the no-objection process, on 15 October 2008.

The Report from the JRR Coordinating Group Meeting on 29 September 2008 (Eng/French to follow) details the discussions that took place, which - together with the Outcome Document (in Annex II of the Meeting Report) - are forming another step in the future preparations towards eventual deployment.