On the picture Herman Schaper.
UPEACE Centre The Hague and the Peace Palace Library 6th Lecture on “Peacebuilding in Progress” will take place on Wednesday 3 February 2016.
On Wednesday 3 February 2016, at the Peace Palace, Academy Building, Seminar Room
From 17.00 to 19.00 hrs Mr. Herman Schaper, former Dutch diplomat, will deliver a speech on “The Candidature of the Netherlands for Membership of the Security Council, 2017-2018”.
Herman Schaper (1949) is a retired Dutch diplomat, who is now (part time) professor at the Campus The Hague of Leiden University, where he occupies the Kooijmans Chair on peace, law and security. Since last July he is also a member of the D66 group in the Eerste Kamer (Senate) of the States-General, the Dutch parliament.
From 2009 to 2013 he was the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations in New York. From 2005 to 2009 he was the Dutch PermRep at NATO. After his return to The Hague in the summer of 2013 he was Special Envoy for the candidacy of The Netherlands for membership of the Security Council, 2017-2018, a position he held till his retirement in 2014. He has published around two dozen articles on Dutch foreign policy, European security and transatlantic relations.
If you wish to attend the lecture, please send an e-mail to info@upeace.nl before 27 January. Costs of participation are € 10; for students there is a reduced fee of € 5. The number of seats is limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Lecture # 1 was held by Ms Judy Cheng-Hopkins, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), and Member of the Council of the UN-Mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica), on “Peacebuilding: What, Why and How?”, 7 March 2014.
Lecture # 2 was held by Prof. Jan Pronk, Chair in the Theory and Practice of International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, on “Preventing Conflict Escalation. Hearts and Minds. Boots and Brains”, 27 May 2014.
Lecture # 3 was held by Prof. András Szöllösi-Nagy, Rector of the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, on “Water: A Source of Conflict or a Potential Peace Builder?”, 3 July 2014.
Lecture # 4 was held by Sir Kenneth Keith, Judge of the International Court of Justice, on “International water disputes – The roles of international courts and arbitral tribunals in resolving them”, 28 January 2015.
Lecture # 5 was held by Robert H. Serry, former UN Envoy, on: “The vanishing prospects for a two state solution”, 9 September 2015.
For information: www.upeace.nl | www.peacepalacelibrary.nl
