Start date: 17 November 2009
End date: 17 November 2009
Time: 6.00pm
Summary: Inching Towards Peace: A New International Humanitarian Order - Henry Dunant proposed that war should become more humane, but we live in a world increasingly governed by a law of war. In the words of Hersch Lauterpacht, can we not build a law of peace to govern relations between states and peoples? Human solidarity is the fundamental ethic which must underlie our endeavours, from science and the arts to economics and policy-making. In a call for a new International Humanitarian Order, HRH co-chaired in the 1980s the UN Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues (ICIHI) which issued a report entitled ‘Winning the Human Race?’. It outlined some of our most pressing existential concerns: poverty, militarization, famine, desertification, and terrorism. Yet over 20 years on, universal wisdom has not overcome material pressures..
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