
New GGI Publication: Europe in the World
GGI is pleased to publish its new 'View from Practice' Paper by Belgian's Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Steven Vanackere. The paper analyzes the main challenges faced by the European Union in a changing global landscape. Vanackere calls for major improvements, such as an EU Military Headquarters and an improved European External Action Service.

Environment and Sustainable Development
GGI's Environment and Sustainable Development Section recognizes the diffuse and multilayered processes and actors involved in these transitions as both opportunities and burdens for environmental governance institutions to realize the new levels of effectiveness required to avoid the worst of climate change and other environmental problems, and the new levels of transparency and accountability needed to legitimize the enormous new investments of public funding required to address the problems adequately.

Peace and Security
The GGI Peace and Security section focuses on strengthening United Nations peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts and on enhancing the effectiveness of military and civilian crisis management operations by regional organizations, such as the European Union, NATO and the African Union.

Forward Studies and Innovation
In a rapidly changing world we believe the most valuable gift we can leave future generations is the ability to deal confidently with unexpected situations. This means that from a young age we need to nurture each individual’s capacity to inquire, evaluate and solve emerging problems. We believe that strengthening these core processes is fundamental for a democratic, equal and sustainable world. Our primary focus is therefore to pioneer shifts in education policy that enable future generations to be more prepared for the issues of tomorrow in a world of global governance.

Global Justice
The development of international law and the promotion of a universal, but cultural-sensitive human rights regime lies at the heart of effective and sustainable global governance. GGI's International Law and Human Rights experts focus on promoting new frame-works and tools for strengthening Global Justice and the rights of vulnerable groups and the individual. Our work focuses on the work and impact of international institutions, such as the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Ad Hoc Tribunals and the Human Rights Council as well as on regional legal courts and human rights regimes.

Economic Policy
The Economic Policy Section provides research and consulting in today's most pressing areas: Financial and housing markets, competition policy, labor markets and social security systems, and political economy of reforms. In these areas, our analysts can draw on extensive experience from the world's top universities, public and private sector organizations. What we all share is the conviction that in order to be useful policy analysis should be data-based, and should look outside the box of individual academic disciplines, complementing our core expertise in economics with solid knowledge of the legal and political aspects of economic policy.

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Operationalising the Responsibility to Protect: Towards a Truly Global Approach
OPERATIONALISING THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
Together with the Madariaga-College of Europe Foundation, the Global Action to Prevent War and the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect, the Global Governance Institute is campaigning for a global debate and approach to moving the Responsibility to Protect from norm to actual operationalisation.
In this context, the four partners have published a free e-book on 'Operationalising the Responsibility to Protect: A Contribution to the Third Pillar Approach'. The book is based on a joint workshop organized in April that brought together policy-makers from the EU, UN and regional organisations and scholars to debate the civilian and military challenges posed by “pillar three” of the RtoP principle.
For more information, please click HERE.
The International Criminal Court's Second Decade: Quo Vadis? (March - May 2012)
Ten years ago, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, entered into force. Since then, the Court has made important strides forward in becoming an important player in the international criminal justice arena. Together with the Institute of European Studies (IES), the Global Governance Institute will hold a series of high-level lectures with senior ICC judges and experts to assess the track-record and future of the International Criminal Court across various policy fields. For further information, please click HERE.
GGI & Global Action to Prevent War: Workshop on Disarmament
GGI co-organized with the UN-based Global Action to Prevent War (GAPW) an afternoon workshop on 'New Trends in Disarmament: Extending our Vision' on 24 April 2012. The workshop brought together members of civil society and policy makers from regional organizations to debate the future of disarmament and disarmament education. For further information, please click here.
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Workshop: Responsibility to Protect - Lessons From Libya

On 25 April 2012, GGI co-organized with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Vesalius College an expert workshop on 'Responsibility to Protect, Responsibility to Rebuild: Lessons from Libya'. The keynote speech was delivered by Prof. Jolyon Howorth (Yale) on implications for NATO and the EU. For the programme, please click HERE.
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Publications
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EU-African Union Cooperation in Capacity-Building
EU-African Union Cooperation in Capacity-Building by Benedikt Franke, 2009. -
The UN and Regional Organizations: The Need for Clarification and Cooperation
The UN and Regional Organizations: The Need for Clarification and Cooperation
Tania Felicio, in Studia Diplomatica, Vol 62, No. 3, 2009 -
The Challenge of Inter-organizationalism
Full Version: Military Crisis Management: The Challenge of Inter-organizationalism
Special Issue of Studia Diplomatica, Vol 62, No. 3, 2009. Edited by Joachim Koops
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- A democratic justification for military and nonmilitary humanitarian intervention: reconciling human rights and collective self determination
- New Policy Brief on Biological Weapons Convention and Bioterrorism
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