The association's Academy has been rebuilt around four faculties, and it is open to every member now — forty-three courses and sixty-two lessons.
Investigation. Arriving at a scene and what is destroyed in the first minutes. How different crimes are investigated, and how the framework differs between the United States and Ukraine. Interviewing a witness without changing what they saw. Continuity of evidence. A phone at a scene. When somebody is missing. What forensic science can and cannot tell you. Notes, statements and what a court does with them. The first response to a report of domestic abuse.
First aid. A road collision. Drowning and rescue in water. Severe bleeding. An unresponsive person, the defibrillator, choking. Burns. Heart attack and stroke. Seizures, and the low blood sugar that looks like drunkenness. Anaphylaxis and opioid overdose. Heat and cold. And psychological first aid — how to support somebody in acute distress, how to ask a person directly whether they are thinking of ending their life, and a lesson for the person who helped.
Documenting international crimes. What the categories are, and what "do no harm" means in practice. Recording a strike or shelling, and handling what you recorded. Speaking with survivors, and what may never be promised. Recording the dead. Verifying material somebody else recorded. Documenting ill-treatment. Attacks on medical care.
Emergencies. Earthquake, flood, fire. A chemical release. An attack in a public place. Unexploded ordnance and mines. A radiological incident. Evacuating people who cannot leave on their own.
Every lesson names the manual it comes from — NIJ 178280, UNODC, NIST OSAC, the Minnesota and Istanbul Protocols, the Berkeley Protocol, the European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021, the World Health Organization, the Méndez Principles, the Murad Code, UNMAS, the Geneva Conventions, and Articles 214 and 237 of Ukraine's Criminal Procedure Code. Every source was requested and checked before a word was written against it.
And every lesson says what it is not. The association is not a police force, not an ambulance service and not a prosecutor. This is reading, not training. It confers no powers, it replaces no certification, and the law of the place you are standing outranks anything on these pages.
The assistant reads the library first. Ask it what to do at a collision, at the site of a strike, or when somebody has found an object that looks like a munition, and it answers from these lessons before it searches anything else — as a briefing, in the order the work is actually done: your own safety, then other people's, then the living, then the evidence.
The Academy is being translated into all ten of the association's languages. Where a lesson has not reached yours yet, the page says so; where it has, the page says that the English original is the version that was reviewed.
Read it at https://upa-int.org/account/academy