Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Collective Voice of The Muslim World
Date: 13/12/2011
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the United Nations Mediation Support Unit (MSU) jointly organized a Workshop on Mediation on 12 December 2011 at the OIC Headquarters in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The participants to the Workshop included both representatives of the OIC Member States and members of the OIC General Secretariat. The Workshop was facilitated jointly by the members of the MSU of the United Nations Policy and Mediation Division and Initiative on Quiet Diplomacy (IQd). The workshop was organized as a part of the cooperation program between the OIC General Secretariat and the UN MSU with an aim to build institutional capacity of the OIC in the field of Preventive Diplomacy and Mediation as tools of Conflict prevention. The OIC-UN Workshop was preceded by a two day long seminar on Options and Techniques for Quiet Preventive Diplomacy which was held for the members of the OIC General Secretariat at the OIC Headquarters on 10-11 December 2011. The Seminar was conceived and conducted for the OIC by the Initiative on Quiet Diplomacy.
