The United Nations Organisation stands at a crossroads. For more than 50 years, its founding document, the UN Charter, has been the lodestar in determining whether threats to international peace and security crossed the rubicon to warrant forcible responses by the Security Council or threatened states.
Today, it is clear that the main threat to international peace and security foreseen by the drafters of the Charter has receded, but the world is hardly more secure or peaceful. Instead, new threats and potential threats to international peace and security have emerged, in particular from non-state actors, which, while no less grave, are not easy or possible to address within the existing legal framework, or existing institutions.
In recent years the idea that international peace and security is inextricably linked to protection of fundamental human rights and international justice has increasingly taken root.
It is no longer only the concern of states or of the UN Security Council. The creation of a plethora of international and internationalised criminal courts are a testament to the belief that without punishment of serious international crimes, and justice for their victims, peace and security can never be achieved in transitional societies. Peace and security have moved from being a concern merely of states to one of the individual and civil society. Still, the jurisdiction of such courts is limited to individuals, and does not cover states or non-state entities.
The Third Annual Conference of The Hague Academic Coalition in the From Peace to Justice Series focuses on current and emerging threats to international peace and security. It aims to identify some of the most urgent new non-traditional threats to international peace and security and examine whether these can be addressed within the Charter framework. To the extent that they cannot, it will discuss how the UN Organisation could reform in order to address non-traditional threats, and will analyse the role of new international organisations in contributing to international peace, security and justice and their relationship with the United Nations, particularly, the Security Council.
Conference brochure (PDF 2,23 MB)
Programme plenary sessions (Word 48 KB)
Programme parallel session The Clingendael Institute (Word 27,5 KB)
Programme parallel session Carnegie Foundation and Grotius Centre (Word 30,5 KB)
Programme parallel session Institute of Social Studies (Word 35 KB)
Programme parallel session T.M.C. Asser Instituut (Word 27 KB)
Question time form
Registration
There are two possibilities to register. We would prefer if you use the online registration link. You can also fill in the attached registration form and send it by fax to + 31 70 3420 316.
Online registration
Registration form (PDF 281 KB)
Hotels
The Organization Committee provisionally booked a limited numbers of rooms in The Hague. Please contact these hotels directly and before March 1st 2006, mentioning as reference: “HAC2006”
List of hotels (Word 26 KB)
Contact
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