ESF Research Conferences

ESF-LiU Conference

The Responsibility to Protect: From Principle to Practice

8-12 June 2010

With Support from

  • Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    The Ministry coordinates and carries out Dutch foreign policy at its headquarters in The Hague and through its missions abroad. It is likewise the channel through which the Dutch Government communicates with foreign governments and international organisations.
  • Amsterdam Center for International Law
    The ACIL, located in the heart of Amsterdam, is the research institute for public international law, including international criminal law and one of the Faculty's Centers of Excellence. Research programmes within the ACIL in particular focus on international constitutional law (including human rights law), international responsibility, international criminal justice, and the reception of international law in the domestic legal order.
  • Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
    The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect was created in February 2007 to catalyze action to move the 2005 World Summit agreement on the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity from principle into practice.
  • Swedish National Defence College
    One of the most important pillars of the Swedish National Defence College is its own base of knowledge and expertise. Research at the College is a vital element of both the academic process and the development of the scientific foundations required in all academic education.