Proceedings of the 2018 Sanremo Round Table now available
The presentations delivered during the last Sanremo Round Table (6-8 September 2018) on “Deprivation of Liberty and Armed Conflicts: exploring realities and remedies” are now available in PDF for consultation here. The few that are missing will follow shortly. The Round...
Post-graduate Master Course in Cultural Property Protection in Crisis Response – Some extra scholarships available
Registration for the first edition of the Post-graduate Master Course in Cultural Property Protection in Crisis Response, organized by the SUISS (Interdepartmental University School for Strategic Sciences) in collaboration with the Training Command and Application School of the Italian Army, the...
Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees at the Council of Europe
Ambassador Tomáš Boček, Special Representative of the Secretary General on Migration and Refugees at the Council of Europe, delivered the keynote speech of the 14th Course on International Migration Law. The Ambassador provided the audience with the key concepts of...
Sanremo Round Table on “Deprivation of liberty and armed conflicts: exploring realities and remedies”
The last Round Table, held in Sanremo from 6 to 8 September 2018, addressed the issue of “Deprivation of liberty and armed conflicts: explotring realities and remedies”. Deprivation of liberty, in particular in relation to armed conflicts, poses a range of...
Proceedings of the Sanremo Round Table on “The Additional Protocols 40 Years Later New Conflicts New Actors New Perspectives”
The proceedings of the last Sanremo Round Table, held from 7 to 9 September 2017, have been published. This publication recalls the 40th anniversary of the adoption of the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions and addresses the central questions...
Institute’s “Prize for the Promotion, Dissemination and Teaching of International Humanitarian Law”
On Thursday 22 March, Professor Fausto Pocar, President of the Institute, awarded the Institute’s “Prize for the Promotion, Dissemination and Teaching of International Humanitarian Law” for the year 2017 to Professor Michael Bothe, Emeritus at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt,...
Workshop on “Enhancing Diversity Skills in International Operations”
In 2000, the UNSC unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), recognising, for the first time ever, that gender inequalities exacerbated in situations of armed conflict hamper the establishment of sustainable peace and development. The UNSCR 1325...
IIHL’s first out-of-area Peace Support Operations course
The Institute organized for the very first time its Peace Support Operations course in Jinja (Uganda), aimed at building the capacity of African armed forces on the application of humanitarian law and human rights within the framework of peace support...