Course on conflict and crisis management ends in Accra

The Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College has ended its annual three weeks course on Conflict and crisis management course in Accra.

Addressing the participants at the closing ceremony, Minister of Interior, Ambrose Dery said, “Events around us and the world over have challenged our generation to come up with innovative ways of addressing the numerous conflicts and crisis confronting us”.

According to him, when conflicts generate into Crisis the very survival of humanity is put to test.

He said, a key objective of the course is was to create and reinforce links between personnel and agencies because crisis management is a multi-agency task which requires several and varied skills and capabilities.

He urged the participants to share the knowledge that they had acquired from the training and rehearse plans to enable all stakeholders to be clear of their roles in these plans.

“Conflict and crisis do not give warnings before they strike, therefore with the new acquired knowledge I urge you to commit yourself in resolving any crisis and conflict you may be faced with” he added.

The course according to the Dean of the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Professor Vladimir Antwi Danso is geared towards inter agency corporation in the management of conflict and crisis.

“There are nine Africa Countries that subscribe to this course and this year we had 28 members out of the 110 participants coming from Nigeria, Tanzania and other African countries” he said.



According to him, students are run through the basic theories of conflict and crisis management with practical examples of crisis that has happened in the past in the world, Africa and Ghana.

Professor Antwi-Danso mentioned that the course for the past 15 years has been of tremendous help to the country and the Military in picking up intelligence .

“Last year some students from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) were very instrumental in arresting some miscreant who were luring some of our girls outside this country for ISIS purposes adding that the course is very effective just that it is woefully under sourced” he noted.