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Second Annual Conference of the Platform

04.03.2014

On 27 February 2014, the Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law convened its Second Annual Conference on security and rule of law in the 21st century. With a focus on identifying and unpacking our assumptions alongside the issues ‘Violence on the Periphery’, ‘Globalization and Social Justice’, and ‘New Approaches to Security’, the conference comprised an exciting and inspiring menu of topics.

The conference succeeded in welcoming several innovative thinkers – among others - Juma Assiago (UNHABITAT, Kenya), Joshua Simmons (Global Financial Integrity, USA), Isabel Aguilar Umaña (Interpeace, Guatemala), Jeroen de Lange (moderator), and Jok Madut Jok (The Sudd Institute).

The approximately 150 participants of the conference actively engaged in choosing the topics for the afternoon breakout sessions by voting for the issue they found most relevant to pursue. The menu of potential topics was derived from the presentations of the key note speakers, previous discussions on theories of change and context analysis responding to the evaluation of the Dutch Foreign Policy in Fragile States from 2005 – 2011, and the main outcomes of the recent online debate on Foreign Engagement in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts.

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In the afternoon, the Platform’s vibrant network of national and international policy makers, practitioners and researchers split up into interactive breakout groups on the following voted topics:

Violence on the Periphery

  • Urban surge: multi-layered violence | Facilitated by Jok Madut Jok
  • Organized crime in ungoverned areas | Facilitated by Summer Brown

Globalization and Social Justice

  • The global trade in natural resources| Facilitated by Mariken Gaanderse

 New Approaches to Security

  • The partner’s dilemma: who is ‘legitimate’? |Facilitated by Berlinda Nolles
  • Expanding the toolbox: do our instruments live up to our ideals? | Facilitated by Pascal Richard
  • Comprehensive, successive approach? Can different end-goals be sequenced? |Facilitated by David Connolly

During the breakouts, new ideas within the realm of security and rule of law in the 21st century were explored with the goal of informing the thematic foci for the Platform in 2014. These foci will be announced by the Steering Group.

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Rob Swartbol, Director General for International Cooperation from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, closed the day with a speech in which he reaffirmed the commitment of Minister Ploumen to support the Platform’s work.

The day ended with the highly-anticipated announcement of the first calls for proposal developed by the Platform based on the research agenda as developed in 2013 by the Working Group Employment for Stability and the Working Group Justice, Power & Politics. The first calls for proposals were launched on 17 March. 

The full presentations of the key note speakers are available:

> Isabel Aguilar Umana 

> Joshua Simmons

> Juma Assiago

Please find below the Program Booklet of the Conference in pdf.

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27 Feb
10:30 - 19:00
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Annual Conference 2014 | Knowledge Platform

Organized by:Secretariat of the Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law

Please note: Registration has closed. We are no longer accepting RSVPs for this event. 

The Second Annual Conference of the Knowledge Platform provides an opportunity for practitioners, international and national policy makers, and researchers to explore the frontier of current knowledge and practice on security and rule of law issues in the 21st century. The conference will aim to re-examine the assumptions underlying current security and rule of law policy for fragile states, generate ideas that venture beyond conventional thinking, and test whether there is drive to take these ideas forward for future developments of the Knowledge Platform alongside the following issues:

  • Violence on the Periphery by Mr. Juma Assiago | UNHABITAT, Kenya

The dominant concept for establishing security and promoting the rule of law tends to work from the premise of robust enforcement by a central state authority. Can this be reconciled with modern manifestations of insecurity on urban, tribal and borderland peripheries?

  • Globalization and Social Justice by Mr. Joshua Simmons | Global Financial Integrity, United States

Our increasingly interconnected world has enabled networks of growth, which are also given to abuse by criminal markets and illicit financial flows. Has sufficient attention been given to the role OECD countries play in facilitating such networks, or in creating new structures of dependency and marginalization?

  • New Approaches to Security by Ms. Isabel Aguilar Umaña | Interpeace, Guatemala

For several years, a “Western” approach to top-down security has defined the policy and practice security reform interventions – to notably poor effect. With the growing salience of context-tailored, community-driven and bottom-up approaches, can alternatives or adjustments be offered to current models?   

 

Together with the recently published IOB evaluation on Dutch Foreign Policy in Fragile States and the main outcomes of the online debate on Foreign Engagement in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts, the ideas of the speakers will form the menu of options for the afternoon break-out sessions. Participants will be actively engaged in choosing the topics of the interactive break-out sessions, which will ultimately inform the thematic foci for the Platform in the year 2014.

 

We hope to welcome you on the 27th of February.

Date 27 February 2014, 09:00 - 18:00 
Venue The Hague Institute for Global Justice
Address Sophialaan 10, The Hague, The Netherlands

See detailed conference program here

Sophialaan 10, 2517 JR, The Hague, The Netherlands
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23 Jan
16:00 - 17:30
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WG Indonesia Meeting January 23rd

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The regular WG Indonesia meeting will take place on Thursday, January, 23rd, 2014, between 15.00 - 16.30 at the Hague Institute for Global Justice. The agenda of the meeting will be:

15.00 Opening

15.05 Presentation by Laure D'Hondt (Phd-student at VVI) on "Legal Misunderstanding as obstacles for enviromental control"

15.35 Presentation by Dirk ten Boer (Senior Prosecutor, the National Coordinator of the Afpakken-programme, and the team leader at the Functioneel-Parket Zwolle) on "The co-operation between the Indonesian Public Prosecution Service and the Dutch Prosecution Service"

15.55 Update by the Clearing House Coordinator and sharing of information between the WG-members

16.15 Planning for the conference in 2014

16.30 Closing

     

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