Military professionals from 16 nations met from Monday to Friday at a seminar to expand their capacity for preparing troops to perform peace-keeping missions, said a press release.

"The seminar will assist mid- to senior-level military leaders to prepare troops to undertake United Nations peace-keeping missions," said the release from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF).

Forty-nine participants attended the seminar jointly sponsored by RCAF, United States Pacific Command, and the UN Department of Peace-keeping Operations.

Due to the ever-changing nature of peace-keeping, planners must be able to assess a specific mission, determine the tasks that their troops will need to perform, and then train the troops to fulfill the tasks, the press release said.

These tasks differ from the war-fighting role in which militaries are traditionally trained, it said.

The participants will examine the processes involved in identifying training needs for peacekeeping missions, determining the appropriate people to conduct that training, and establishing standards for determining if the training requirements have been met.

Instructors are from five countries and all are experienced in UN Peacekeeping missions. The Hawaii-based Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance is running the seminar. International attendees include members of the militaries and national police forces of 15 countries in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Source: Xinhua