Key Challenges and Opportunities to Sustainable Water Development: U.N. World Water Day

Water resource management is essential to sustainability, especially in view of global environmental change driven by climate, population, and land cover change activities. The topic is included within the U.N Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 6): 'Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.' As Leiden University and adjacent local organizations span a […]

Hybrids and Mixed Processes: Process Pluralism and the Integrity of Process?

Leiden Socio-Legal Series Lecture This paper discusses the varieties of hybridization of dispute resolution processes from “purer” forms of negotiation, mediation, arbitration and adjudication, and surveys how these processes have now been combined and hybridized to form such processes as “med-arb”, “arb-med”,  ombuds, online dispute resolution (ODR), and other forms of dispute resolution and decision […]

Business Model Challenge | Plastics Edition

In just 60 years, we’ve collectively created more than 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste. And almost 80% of this has been estimated to end up in a landfill and as litter polluting our land and oceans. There’s no way around it. We need to create a circular plastics system in which plastic never becomes waste or […]

Humanity Hub Experience Day

Are you curious about what goes on in the Humanity Hub? Are you working on innovations in peace, justice and humanitarian action? Would you like to join likeminded individuals and increase your impact through collaboration? At our Humanity Hub Experience Day you get to become a Humanity Hub member for a day! During your time […]

Ideation Session with The Hague Hacks + Movies That Matter + Border Session

The Hague Hacks, in partnership with Movies that Matter and Border Sessions, is excited to invite you to our Ideation Session on March 25th, at 15.30, at The Filmhuis in The Hague. Film is a powerful tool against social indifference. In the footsteps of the Amnesty International Film Festival, Movies that Matter continues to share […]

Internship Helpdesk – Collaboration Meetup

Would you like to contribute to the development of talent for international peace, justice and humanitarian action? Would you like to support the development of The Hague as a centre which offers opportunities for building the work skills and/or applied research capacity of students in the fields of humanitarian aid and international peace and justice? […]

Experiential Learning Event: Agile for Government Services & NGO’s?

Are you a leader, a change champion or service designer working in the Government or NGO space? Do you find yourself wasting precious time on analysing vast amounts of data, crafting epic sized business cases or brilliant PowerPoint solutions before actually 'doing ' any change? Do you advocate agile leadership but find it hard to […]

Future Session #2: Earth Observation & Big Data Analysis

Mapping and tracking social and environmental impact through earth observation and big data analysis This Future Session marks second workshop brought to you by a collaboration between The Hague Humanity Hub and The Spindle! We aim to bring our mutual communities workshops on the challenging development issues we face in the world today. Did you […]

Innovate While Operating: Agile by Ambidexterity

In order to cope with a fast changing world, we need to adapt to survive, yet create value in the present. How can we experiment and be effective at the same time? Balance innovation and operation? And where do we start in creating such an ambidextrous organisation? We invite you to explore these issues together […]

Goed Goed Doen Meetup

Initiatives that want to do good are starting all around us. But how do you actually do that? Actually do something good for your fellow human beings? Goed Goed Doen is a new non-profit platform that wants to help starters with these questions. They do not only offer a platform, but also provide tailor-made support with […]

Data normalization & The Hague Peace Data Standard

Peace Innovation Lab's co-director Mark Nelson is giving a talk on data normalization & The Hague Peace Data Standard on the 27th March. Former relief-worker, investment banker, and social entrepreneur, Mark Nelson founded and co-directs Stanford Peace Innovation Lab, where he researches mass collaboration and mass interpersonal persuasion. Mark focuses on designing, catalyzing, incentivizing, and generating […]

Hackathon Against Slavery

Does slavery still exist? Yes, 40 million people worldwide are victims. Although slavery is forbidden in almost every country, millions of children, women and men are forced to work as slaves in different industries. At Keen Design we like to dream big. IJM does that too and dreams of a slave-free world. They are also […]

What’s Hub Lunch

What is… What’s Hub Lunch? A regular lunch-time gathering where Hub members share a meal, while getting to know one another better. Each time, a different member will act as a host during the meal and facilitate the interaction between participants in a fun and relaxed setting. When and where is it happening? Every first […]

How Can We Make Justice Accessible to All?

Everyone has the right to justice. However all around the world, people and communities have difficulty getting access to justice. The need to improve access to justice is, therefore, part of the Sustainable Development Goals. During this HagueTalks you will hear personal stories from people all around the world that work with local communities to […]

SDG 7 – How does the Netherlands contribute to Renewable Energy in Developing Countries?

Are you active in the (renewable) energy sector and do you have growth ambitions in developing countries? Then come to The Hague on 5 April and participate in the debate on Dutch contributions to accelerated realisation of the sustainable development goal (SDG) 7: access to affordable and sustainable energy. During this event we launch the […]

Emerging Markets Bootcamp: Launch Studio

The Hague Tech and its Partners have collaborated to set up their 'Emerging Markets Bootcamp' ! This three day event is for Dutch start-ups and scale-ups to learn more about soft landing programs in South Africa and other emerging markets globally. As well as providing insight into the Dutch entrepreneurial climate for startups from the emerging […]

Human Rights & Artificial Intelligence in World Perspective

China and America and world leaders in AI and technology investment, plugging several billion euros every year. Similarly, the United Nations pays a lot of attention to a worldwide responsible AI Strategy and here in Europe, there is a commitment to a strategy based on a ‘human centric’ approach. The Netherlands is also attempting to […]

Crisis Mitigation and Predictive Analytics: Measuring Famine Risks

Nadia Piffaretti, a Senior Economist at the World Bank, will be giving a talk on managing crises concerning famine risk! The presentation will tackle a multitude of questions, aiming to identify gaps, opportunities, and challenges related to the application of predictive models in humanitarian crises; consider legal and ethical issues associated with the collection and […]

NWO Matchmaking Meeting – Responsible Innovation

Designing for public values in a digital world New technological developments such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things, Big Data, and Blockchain can solve problems and help realise shared values and ideals. At the same time, other public values are at stake, such as privacy, security, and democracy. How can these values be taken […]

A Privilege-Free Day

The Hague Freedom Weeks In the run-up to Dutch Liberation Day on 5 May, The Hague is dedicating three whole weeks to freedom. Het Nutshuis will open its doors on Sunday 14 April as part of The Hague Freedom Weeks. Together with Hague Talks Youth, the Kinder- en Jongerenrechtswinkel (legal aid organisation for children and […]

Host your events at the Humanity Hub

From workshops and trainings to large conferences, our modern facilities — including hybrid options and sustainable catering — ensure a smooth experience. We also offer optional support with guest registration, check-in, ticketing, and event communications. Contact our team for a custom, no-obligation quote: