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Public events and expert seminars are a key part of our activities.
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We run various private and public events – conferences, workshops, seminars, roundtables – providing a critical and scholarly forum for discussion around topical issues. The livestreaming of flagship events allows audiences outside Geneva to follow debates and participate via social media. Most public events can also be viewed afterwards via our YouTube channel.
The IHL Talks are a series of events on international humanitarian law and current humanitarian topics. Every two months, at lunchtime, academic experts, practitioners, policy-makers and journalists discuss burning humanitarian issues and their regulation under international law. This Initiative is coordinated by Émilie Max
This annual conference, co-organized with the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, provides a space for experts and practitioners, diplomats, academics, and civil society representatives to discuss the legal and policy issues that have arisen in the past and current year in relation to armed conflicts situations. Its content is modelled after the latest edition of the War Report.
The Military Briefings, a unique series of events relating to military institutions and the law, aim to improve our students’ knowledge of military actors and operations and build bridges between the military and civilian worlds. Military guests – on active duty, retired or from the reserve – will discuss military institutions, their missions as well as operational and legal challenges they face in their daily work. Each briefing is divided into two parts: a presentation aimed at equipping students with basic knowledge on the selected theme, and a discussion, where the guest speaker engages with students on the challenges raised by the theme. This initiative is coordinated by Öykü Irmakkesen and Pavle Kilibarda.
The Military Briefings address six themes:
The Geneva Academy Wednesdays (GAWs) are a platform coordinated by a group of Geneva Academy teaching assistants – George Dvalaze and Alessandra Spadaro – to foster the exchange of ideas and the creation of a scholarly network among PhD students from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Geneva who conduct research on areas within the scientific focus of the Geneva Academy (i.e. international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law, international refugee law, transitional justice, selected public international law topics, etc.).
The GAWs take place on Wednesdays in the format of roundtables closed to the general public. One or more PhD students from the Graduate Institute or the University of Geneva can present their ideas, outlines, working papers or draft thesis chapters in an informal way and receive constructive feedback on them from their peers (and, optionally, from a main discussant) in a respectful and welcoming setting.
Those interested in presenting their work and/or in attending the next series of GAWs can subscribe to the GAW mailing list. The organizers can be contacted for specific questions at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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ICRC
The Research Brief From Words to Deeds: A Study of Armed Non-State Actors’ Practice and Interpretations of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Norms summarizes the focus, objectives, methodology and research questions of this project.
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Springer
Two alumni of our LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Ezequiel Heffes and Manuel Ventura are the editors, along with Marcos Kotlik, of a new book on international humanitarian law and non-state actors.
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ICRC
Our new War Report article Iraq: Any Hope for Change? provides an overview of the non-international armed conflict in the country, including information about the classification of the conflict, its history, parties and developments in 2019.
