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SUMMARY:Webinar: Securing Public Trust and Social Cohesion Amid COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:The Role of Access to Trusted and Reliable Information\nBackground \nThe COVID-19 pandemic presents heightened risks for societies with low levels of social cohesion and a lack of trust between citizens and the state. The accompanying ‘infodemic’ makes matters worse by spreading harmful information that not only undermines health responses but also tears at the social fabric. In addition\, pre-existing suspicion of health authorities and aid actors in many countries adds to the danger. These factors drastically increase the likelihood of violence\, witnessed already in surging numbers at the household level\, and widely feared and predicted to come at the community level. \nHowever\, experience responding to the Ebola epidemics in West Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo has shown that ensuring a constructive exchange of information and healthy collaboration between communities\, authorities\, and responders can play a crucial role in enabling an effective response and preventing violence.  \nIn this webinar\, two peacebuilding experts from Mercy Corps will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating existing threats to social cohesion in fragile contexts\, and how we can make the international response more effective while preventing violent conflict. \nObjectives \nRaise awareness of the impact of COVID-19 on public trust and social cohesion in fragile contexts\nShare good practices of countering misinformation and strengthening community engagement to improve social cohesion amid an epidemic\nHear experiences and good practices from the broader SRoL community\nFormat & Speaker \nEmma Whitaker\, Peace & Conflict Advisor\, Mercy Corps \nDanjuma Dawop\, Head of Conflict Management and Social Cohesion\, Mercy Corps Iraq \nQ&A \nModerated by Megan Price\, Head of Office\, KPSRL \nRegistration \nRegistration is mandatory to attend this event.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/webinar-securing-public-trust-and-social-cohesion-amid-covid-19/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200602T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200602T180000
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SUMMARY:Startup Tuesday The Hague | everis Awards Nederland edition
DESCRIPTION:The increasing use of disruptive technologies as IoT\, Artificial Intelligence\, Big Data and other IT-related disciplines is changing the way we understand business. This change is part of new digital culture in which the barriers between physical and virtual worlds are becoming narrower. We´re looking for entrepreneurs that have identified new opportunities thanks to the application of these technologies to take part\, for the first time\, in the everis Awards Nederland. Are we looking in the right direction? Are you part of the change? \nTHE EVERIS FOUNDATION IS LOOKING FOR THE MOST INNOVATIVE TECH PROJECT IN THE NETHERLANDS. With the winner of last year edition in Belgium and a representive of the everis foundation\, we will talk about the impact of this award and the goal of making impact that generates a positive change in society.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/startup-tuesday-the-hague-everis-awards-nederland-edition/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200603T191500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200603T203000
DTSTAMP:20250610T103148Z
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SUMMARY:Challenges to Prosecuting Paramilitaries: Insights from the former Yugoslavia and Syria [SCL Lecture]
DESCRIPTION:Paramilitaries and irregular armed forces are\, and have been\, ubiquitous in conflicts world-wide: from Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s\, to the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s\, to the Democratic Republic of Congo\, Uganda in the past few decades and\, more recently\, in Iraq\, Syria and Ukraine. Many of them have perpetrated brutal attacks against civilians and participated in crimes that have been legally qualified as genocide\, crimes against humanity and war crimes. \nThese armed groups often serve as auxiliaries to regular state forces\, and various units act covertly in pursuit of political and territorial goals\, which enable states to claim plausible deniability and leaders to escape responsibility. \nA number of trials in The Hague\, at the ICTY and the ICC\, dealt with various paramilitary units\, and the IRMCT is currently retrying an important case relating to the paramilitaries in the former Yugoslavia\, prosecuting state officials for establishing\, funding and directing units that committed crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. \nThis panel aims to discuss\, from an interdisciplinary perspective\, the nature and purpose of paramilitaries using examples from the former Yugoslavia and Syria\, and the legal\, investigative and evidentiary challenges in prosecuting perpetrators\, both paramilitary members and those who command and control them. \nPresentations:\nSerbian Paramilitaries: Insights from the ICTY\nDr Iva Vukušić\, Visiting Research Fellow at Department of War Studies\, King’s College London \nThe rise of Kataib al-Baath (al-Baath Legions) at Aleppo University after 2011\nAli Aljasem\, MA\, Researcher at the History Department\, Utrecht University \nEstablishing the liability of paramilitary members for atrocity crimes – problems and potentialities\nDr Matthew Gillett\, Director\, Peace and Justice Initiative and Trial Lawyer\, Office of the Prosecutor at the ICC
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/challenges-to-prosecuting-paramilitaries-insights-from-the-former-yugoslavia-and-syria-scl-lecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200605T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200605T170000
DTSTAMP:20250610T103304Z
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SUMMARY:KUNO Covid-Café: How Covid empowers local civil society organizations in the South
DESCRIPTION:The Covid-19 crisis is posing a challenge to the world in unprecedented ways and it is influencing our daily lives. It will most definitely also change our work in the humanitarian sector. This needs to be discussed: with humanitarian professionals\, with policymakers\, academics\, and certainly also with a broader audience: citizens that are firmly interested this topic\, but who may also have worries. This is why KUNO in cooperation with partners\, is introducing the KUNO Covid Café. Every week we organize an online café\, to discuss the changing world with inspiring speakers and a wide audience. \nThe first series of the Covid-Café will be a joint Oxfam Novib – KUNO effort. \nIn this fourth episode of the Café we will talk about the influence of Covid on empowering local civil society organizations with the following speakers : \nStand-up column by Prof Dr Thea Hilhorst\, professor at International Institue of Social Studies (ISS) and president of International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA). \nGloria Madong\, Executive Director\, Titi Foundation South Sudan\, and Deputy Chair\, NGO Forum South Sudan\nThis session will be co-moderated by Peter Heintze (KUNO) and Anita Kattakuzhy\, Humanitarian Policy Advisor Localization at Oxfam International. \nThe KUNO Covid-Café is a low-key webinar\, which you can enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee\, at the end of your work day. It’s a great opportunity to stay in touch on relevant developments within our sector\, and to discuss with the guest speakers via the chat in the webinar. You can also e-mail any questions you may have beforehand to kuno@kuno-platform.nl\, we will then do our best to incorporate them into the webinar.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/kuno-covid-cafe-how-covid-empowers-local-civil-society-organizations-in-the-south/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200611T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200611T150000
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SUMMARY:Towards Risk-Sharing - Perspectives on localization and risk management in the context of Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:The Covid19-crisis has highlighted the critical role played by national and local NGO humanitarian organisations to an unprecedented extent. At the same time Covid is posing new risks for humanitarian responders\, especially to the local actors in their critical role. Wider efforts to strengthen support to national and local actors in the response are on-going. This webinar will focus on the topic of risk management and poses the following question: How can we better share risks between local and international actors in humanitarian response to Covid19 and beyond?\n\nRecent years have brought a proliferation of risk management standards\, tools and requirements in humanitarian action to address concerns over safeguarding\, financial management and other aspects of quality and accountability. Two concepts have come to the fore. ‘Risk transfer’ refers to how donors and international humanitarian agencies expect local partners to manage risk without adequately supporting them to do so. ‘Risk sharing’ refers to the concept of shifting towards a more partnership-based approach to understanding\, managing and mitigating risk. \nCAFOD\, CORDAID\, C4C\, EISF\, DRA and KUNO invite you to a webinar sharing perspectives from national NGOs working in Syria\, Myanmar and Nigeria\, and reflections from international donors\, INGOs and UN agency representatives on ways forward. Other participants will be invited to pose questions and responses via a chatbox. \n\n\nSpeakers (preliminary)\n\n\n\nJosephine Habba\, National Coordinator Jireh Doo Foundation Nigeria and National Coordinator NINGONET\nRepresentative of Donor Organizations\nRepresentatives of local NGOs in Syria and Myanmar\nRepresentative(s) of the Steering committee for Humanitarian Response / international NGOs.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/towards-risk-sharing-perspectives-on-localization-and-risk-management-in-the-context-of-covid-19/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200611T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200611T170000
DTSTAMP:20250610T103155Z
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SUMMARY:‘Mediated trust: a theoretical framework to address the trustworthiness of technological trust mediators’ [Research seminar]
DESCRIPTION:On 11 June\, the Asser Institute is proud to welcome Dr Balázs Bodó. During this research seminar\, he will be presenting his paper: ‘Mediated trust: a theoretical framework to address the trustworthiness of technological trust mediators’. \nTrust is what enables the cooperation of strangers in face of risks\, contingencies\, and potential harm. We are going through a global crisis of trust due to globalization and digitization. On the one hand\, digital technologies contribute to this crisis through their destabilizing and disruptive effects. On the other hand\, they offer new ways to produce trust. In either case\, digital technologies permeate and transform almost every space where trust may emerge\, is produced\, and used. This creates new\, often unknown types of risks and contingencies\, which also require trust to be overcome. \n\n\n\nWe are entering an era where trust is technologically mediated\, yet what little we know about the trustworthiness of trust mediating technologies gives us no reason to trust them.\nWe need trust technologies we can have confidence in. To achieve that goal\, we need to understand the limitations of using purely technological ways of producing trust\, and upgrade or change our existing institutional logics of trust production and distrust mitigation to incorporate technological trust mediators. \nThis talk outlines the current crisis of trust\, the challenges technological modes of trust production generate\, the nature of the institutional change\, and the policies which can produce trustworthy technological trust mediators. \n  \nAsser research seminars \nDuring the Asser Research Seminars\, external researchers are invited to present their current and upcoming research with the Asser research community. The seminars are semi-open\, as we invite a few external people who may be interested in the specific topic of the seminar. However\, we aim to keep the group’s size limited\, to stimulate interaction and high quality\, in-depth discussions. Researchers who are interested in presenting their research to the Asser research community are welcome to send an e-mail to Dr Christophe Paulussen (c.paulussen@asser.nl).
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/mediated-trust-a-theoretical-framework-to-address-the-trustworthiness-of-technological-trust-mediators-research-seminar/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200612T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200612T133000
DTSTAMP:20250610T103324Z
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SUMMARY:KUNO Covid-Café: How Covid affects migrants and refugees
DESCRIPTION:Register here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R7L7en5GQM2yRIwazxBadg\n  \n\nThe Covid-19 crisis is posing a challenge to the world in unprecedented ways and it is influencing our daily lives. It will most definitely also change our work in the humanitarian sector. This needs to be discussed: with humanitarian professionals\, with policymakers\, academics\, and certainly also with a broader audience: citizens that are firmly interested this topic\, but who may also have worries. This is why KUNO in cooperation with partners\, is introducing the KUNO Covid Café. Every week we organize an online café\, to discuss the changing world with inspiring speakers and a wide audience.\n\nThe first series of the Covid-Café will be a joint Oxfam Novib – KUNO effort. \nIn this fifth episode of the Café we will talk about the consequences of Covid on migrants and refugees with the following speakers: \n\n\nIain Byrne\, Head of Refugee and Migrant Rights and Deputy Programme Director (ag.)\, Global Issues Programme\, Special Advisor\, Strategic Litigation\, Amnesty International – International Secretariat on the 14 principles of protection for migrants and displacement during Covid-19\, \nand \nEvelien van Roemburg\, the Europe Migration Campaign Manager for Oxfam International on the work of Oxfam in Greece and Italy around the Covid-response. \nThe KUNO Covid-Café is a low-key webinar\, which you can enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee\, at the end of your work day. It’s a great opportunity to stay in touch on relevant developments within our sector\, and to discuss with the guest speakers via the chat in the webinar. You can also e-mail any questions you may have beforehand to kuno@kuno-platform.nl\, we will then do our best to incorporate them into the webinar.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/kuno-covid-cafe-how-covid-affects-migrants-and-refugees/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200615T191500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200615T200000
DTSTAMP:20250610T103157Z
CREATED:20200511T115328Z
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SUMMARY:A Decade of Review: The UN’s Ombudsperson to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee
DESCRIPTION:On 15 June\, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut\, the UN’s Ombudsperson to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague (ICCT) will organise a panel discussion on the UN Ombudsperson’s Office and its review procedures\, ten years after its establishment. \n\nTargeted sanctions have come to be viewed as an indispensable tool in the fight against terrorism. Since 1999\, the UN Security Council has designated hundreds of individuals and entities\, imposing assets freezes\, travel bans and arms embargoes to hinder support for the Taliban\, Al-Qaida and ISIL (Da’esh). However\, as the number of designations has grown\, a clear need has also emerged for a robust independent review procedure\, so that those designated can seek removal of their name from the sanctions list. \nTen years ago\, the Security Council created the Office of the Ombudsperson with that purpose in mind. Since then\, individuals and entities designated on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List have had the opportunity to have their listing reviewed by an independent and impartial Ombudsperson who recommends either retention or delisting after consulting with all relevant parties\, including with the petitioner. \nThis panel will discuss\, inter alia\, how the Security Council came to the unanimous decision to establish the Office of the Ombudsperson\, the unique ‘jurisprudence’ that has emerged\, and what this means for petitioners. The discussion will also provide context on the post of Ombudsperson\, operating in the highly politicised environment of counter-terrorism policy-making. \nPanellists \n\nMr Daniel Kipfer Fasciati: Ombudsperson to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee\nJudge Kimberly Prost: Judge at the International Criminal Court and former Ombudsperson\nMs Aurélie Berthet\, International Lawyer\nDr Devika Hovell\, Associate Professor in Public International Law\, London School of Economics and Political Science
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/a-decade-of-review-the-uns-ombudsperson-to-the-isil-daesh-and-al-qaida-sanctions-committee/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200616T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200616T120000
DTSTAMP:20250610T103336Z
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SUMMARY:Online Seminar: EU Development Policy Post 2020: norms and contestation
DESCRIPTION:The EU’s development policy is being strategically adjusting to respond to the shifting challenges of the international order. In doing so it is argued that this is undermining the EU’s core normative commitment to development. \nJointly organized by the International Institute of Social Studies and the European Association of Development Research and Training Institute (EADI)\, this seminar approaches the topic by exploring the extent to which the shift to ‘partnership’ in EU development rhetoric is a break with the past? \nThe aim of the seminar is to provide an arena for ECR/PhD students to receive feedback on their work. The cancellation (for obvious reasons) of various conferences has deprived them of this important feedback element. We invite colleagues to join and participate in the spirit of providing constructive and supportive feedback. \nPresenters\n\nThe EU’s development policy post-2020: Continuity or change?\n\nDr Johanne Døhlie Saltnes\, ARENA – Centre for European Studies \n\nPath Dependence and Contestation in EU International Cooperation: From Aid to Partnership\n\nDr Sebastian Steingass\, College of Europe (Natolin)\, Poland
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/online-seminar-eu-development-policy-post-2020-norms-and-contestation/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200616T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200616T180000
DTSTAMP:20250610T103241Z
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SUMMARY:StartUp Tuesday Special Edition | Enpuls challenge Final Pitch Event
DESCRIPTION:Enpuls organizes the Enpuls Challenge every year. Creative minds\, innovative techies and socially involved startups pitch their ideas for the energy transition. The future improvers can win a year of support and a nice start-up capital. Given the challenging period of the Covid-19 crisis\, we decided to organize a hybrid event that is partly online and partly offline. The “three” winners will be announced during the live event on June 16th.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/startup-tuesday-special-edition-enpuls-challenge-final-pitch-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200617T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200617T210000
DTSTAMP:20250610T103338Z
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SUMMARY:Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH - The Film”
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to invite you for our very first online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” with a screening of  “PUSH – The Film”Opens external on the global housing crisis. This is organized as part of the Vital Cities & CitizensOpens external (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam\, in collaboration with UrbanAOpens external and DRIFTOpens external. It is the first part of #SustainableJustCities event series by VCC initiative with focus on the Right to HousingOpens external. \nThe covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis\, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing\, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The FilmOpens external captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges\, tensions\, possibilities and opportunities for the future. \nYou are welcome to join this online movie night while having dinner and/or drinks!
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200617T191500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200617T203000
DTSTAMP:20250610T103142Z
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SUMMARY:[Book launch] Human dignity and human security in times of terrorism
DESCRIPTION:Despite a current drop in the number of deaths\, terrorism should still be considered a serious and widespread problem. However\, the responses to this phenomenon are often more problematic from a long-term perspective. On June 17 2020\, T.M.C. Asser Instituut and T.M.C. Asser Press celebrate the book launch of ‘Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism’\, edited by Asser researcher Dr Christophe Paulussen and Prof. Martin Scheinin (EUI). Sign up here to register for this event. \nWith the human rights framework under serious pressure\, the book offers a timely\, important and critical in-depth analysis of human dignity and human security challenges in the lead-up\, and in the responses\, to current forms of terrorism. It aims to map how human dignity and human security can be secured and how law can constitute a source of trust at a time when Europe and the rest of the world continue to be plagued by terrorism. \nThe book\, which focuses on\, but is not limited to the situation in Western countries\, aims to inspire not only academics – through further theorisation on the sometimes elusive but important concepts of human dignity and human security – but also practitioners working in the field of countering terrorism. The authors show that following a human rights approach will be indispensable in securing human dignity and human security for all\, especially in times of terrorism. \nAbout the editors\nChristophe Paulussen is a senior researcher at the Asser Institute and a research fellow at ICCT in The Hague\, the Netherlands\, and Martin Scheinin is Professor of International Law and Human Rights in the Department of Law of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence\, Italy. Scheinin was the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism in 2005–2011. \nAbout the book launch\nOn Wednesday\, June 17\, an expert panel discussion will celebrate the book launch of ‘Human Dignity and Human Security in Times of Terrorism’. The event will gather some of the authors to share their findings and discuss them with the audience. \nProgramme \n19:15: Welcome remarks by Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi\, researcher Asser Institute\n19:20: Presentation of the book by Christophe Paulussen\n19:30: Chapter presentations by their authors: \n– Dr Rumyana Van Ark (née Grozdanova) “The Normalisation of Secrecy in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands: Individuals\, the Courts and the Counter-Terrorism Framework”\n– Prof Helen Duffy\, “Dignity Denied: A Case Study”\n– Sangita Jaghai (co-authored with Laura Van Waas) “Stripped of Citizenship\, Stripped of Dignity? A Critical Exploration of Nationality Deprivation as a Counter-Terrorism Measure” \n20:00: Q&A session with the audience \n– Final words from Frank Bakker\, Publisher T.M.C. Asser Press \nAbout the panelists \nDr Rumyana Van Ark (née Grozdanova)\nDr. Rumyana van Ark (née Grozdanova) is Post-Doctoral Researcher in Terrorism\, Counter-Terrorism and International Law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute within the Research Strand ‘Human Dignity and Human Security’. She is also a Research Fellow and a Coordinator at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT – The Hague). Her work focuses on the impact of counter-terrorism measures on the individual terror suspect and the long-term implications for the rule of law. Rumyana holds a PhD in Law (focusing on human rights and counter-terrorism) from the University of Durham\, an LLM in Criminology and Criminal Justice from University College Dublin and a BA (Hons.) Legal Studies with Business from Nottingham Trent University. \nProf. Helen Duffy\nProfessor Duffy holds the Gieskes Chair in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at the Grotius Centre\, Leiden University\, is Honorary Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow\, senior fellow at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Professor at American University. She has an LLB. (University of Glasgow\, 1989)\, LLM. (University College London 1990)\, Dipl. Legal Practice (University of Edinburgh 1991) and PHD (University of Leiden 2013). \nSangita Jaghai (co-authored with Laura Van Waas)\nSangita Jaghai is a PhD Candidate at Tilburg University. Her thesis focuses on the concept of nationality deprivation. Her thesis assesses why different forms of denationalization are deemed legitimate by States and when nationality deprivation is arbitrary under international law. This research also reflects on whether and how deprivation of nationality can have implications for the constitutional concept of citizenship.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/book-launch-human-dignity-and-human-security-in-times-of-terrorism/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200623T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200623T180000
DTSTAMP:20250610T103328Z
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SUMMARY:Startup Tuesday with Alex Gunkel\, founder of Space4Good & RoadEO
DESCRIPTION:Air Quality Measurements for Economists – How satellite earth observation helps the World Bank tackling COVID-19\nAlexander Gunkel\, founder of Space4Good\, will share the story on how novel satellite systems help the World Bank collect new big data insights even during global lockdowns. Resulting from a unique co-creation process\, the World Bank and Space4Good are developing an air quality analytics platform which provides economists with this unconventional data source in order to understand the development and impact of COVID-19.\n\nJoin us for this new edition of the Startup Tuesday at the Humanity Hub with Alexander Gunkel\, founder of Space4Good and RoadEO. You can also read a recent feature of Alex on our blog.\n  \nAbout Startup Tuesday \nStartup Tuesday The Hague is a weekly event to inspire and connect. This series of events is a collaboration among innovative hubs that aim to strengthen connections and support impact-driven entrepreneurship in The Hague. It’s the ideal occasion to network\, learn from experienced founders\, and explore solutions to shared challenges. \nOur goal is to showcase successful tech-driven startups in the peace\, justice\, and humanitarian ecosystems\, and to spread more entrepreneurial thinking among nonprofits and other organizations in these sectors. Join us for an informal conversation around shared challenges with a seasoned entrepreneur in a cozy armchair setting\, followed by networking drinks.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/startup-tuesday-with-alex-gunkel-founder-of-space4good-roadeo/
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SUMMARY:Hub Community Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Link for the meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93162946060 \nThe Town Hall is the place where the community comes together to share relevant developments\, ask questions and share concerns and suggestions. The Hub team will share an update on the current situation and future of the Hub. We would love to see many familiar faces\, even if only virtually! If you have something to share with fellow members and add to the agenda\, please contact us. \n 
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/hub-community-town-hall/
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SUMMARY:Community Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Registration: \nhttps://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsceuhqj0qHNSsjDwWzdR7ae7-BcXcXcQg \n  \nThe Town Hall is the place where the community comes together to share relevant developments\, ask questions and share concerns and suggestions. The Hub team will share an update on the current situation and the future of the Hub. We would love to see many familiar faces\, even if only virtually! If you have something to share with fellow members and add to the agenda\, please contact us. \nNote: for Hub members only.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/community-town-hall-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200625T180000
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SUMMARY:THCOC: Pandemic and Politics - the South Caucasus and Corona
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the next event in the series The Hague Conversations on Conflict by LINKS Europe This link opens in a new tab and The Hague Humanity Hub This link opens in a new tab\, which aims to contribute to a better understanding of conflict and help rethink approaches to conflict prevention and resolution. This event will be held virtually but will otherwise maintain a similar format to the activities previously organised in this series. On Thursday\, the 25th of May\, in collaboration with the web portal Commonspace.eu This link opens in a new tab\, The Hague Conversations on Conflict will turn its attention to the South Caucasus\, looking specifically at how the countries of the region have tackled COVID-19 and how the pandemic has affected both domestic politics and the often tense and always finely balanced regional relations. \nArmenia\, Azerbaijan and Georgia adopted different strategies to contain the pandemic\, with different degrees of success. But the strategies were often caught in contentious domestic political debates. The three unrecognised entities in the region – Abkhazia\, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh – faced their own challenges in dealing with the pandemic. Covid-19 provided no respite to the war of words between the different players\, a reminder of the entrenched and underlying challenges facing the region. \nWhat is the likely political fallout from the pandemic on the politics of the region? Has the regional dynamic changed in any way? And how did external actors – Russia\, the EU\, China\, the United States and others – fare? To discuss these and other questions we will be joined by local experts from the region\, speaking from their respective capitals\, including: \n– Benyamin Poghosyan: Founder and Chairman of the Center for Political and Economic Strategic Studies in Yerevan.\, Armenia. \n– Ahmad Alili: Chairman of the Caucasus Policy Analysis Centre of Azerbaijan in Baku. \n– Ghia Abashidze: Political analyst\, based in Tbilisi\, Georgia. \nWilliam Murray\, Project Officer at LINKS Europe will moderate the conversation- Registration for this event is required. \nThe event will be hosted on Zoom and will be accessible through eventbrite. Registrants will receive further details closer to the time – \nA video of the previous event in The Hague Conversations on Conflict series\, ‘China and the West – Avoiding a Confrontation’\, can be viewed here This link opens in a new tab.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/thcoc-pandemic-and-politics-the-south-caucasus-and-corona/
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SUMMARY:EADI/ISS Webinar: Rethinking civil society in promoting solidarity and social change in constrained settings
DESCRIPTION:A vibrant civil society enhances solidarity\, social justice\, and peace. However\, opportunities to act for social change within civil societies are limited in many ways. Solidarity networks function in a way that might counter the conventional conceptualizations of civil society in Western scholarship. \nJointly organized by the International Institute of Social Studies and the European Association of Development Research and Training Institute (EADI)Opens external\, this webinar explores elaboration of local conceptualizations of civil society and development with focus on authoritarian\, conflict affected and fragile contexts characterized by lack or diminishing of democratic state-civil society relationships. \nThrough localized and contextualized notions of civil society and civic-driven change the panel seeks to understand the dynamics of emergence of agency for change in such non-democratic settings\, exercised by both established organizations and people’s everyday organizing. \nIn this webinar\, accepted papers for the panel HP122- Rethinking civil society in promoting solidarity and social change in constrained settingsOpens external will be presented and discussed. \nProgramme: \nOpening with the coordinators: Kees Biekart\, Tiina Kontinen\, Marianne Millstein \n 1. Local-Global Interactions – Civil Society between partnership and power imbalance: Samantha Ruppel\, Goethe University Frankfurt\, Germany \n 2. Civil Society And Electoral Reforms Under Hegemonic Electoral Authoritarianism. Backdoor Exit\, Weak Voice And Enforced Loyalty In Uganda: Anders Sjögren\, Uppsala University\, Sweden \n3. Space(s) for Peace in Mitrovica\, Kosovo: Women’s Voices for Change: Cintia Silva Huxter\, Loughborough University\, United Kingdom \nBreak \n 4. Social Enterprises to Promote Solidarity and Social Change in Palestine: Maria Sassi\, Ayesha Nazir\, University of Pavia\, Italy \n5. Rethinking Civil Society – Global Commodity Traders (GCTs)\, Sustainable Development and the “New Brazilian Soya Highway”: Lee Jonathan Pegler (1)\, Isis Taboas (2)\, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera (3) – 1: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)\, Netherlands\, The; 2: University of Brasilia; 3: Federal University of Grande Dourados
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/eadi-iss-webinar-rethinking-civil-society-in-promoting-solidarity-and-social-change-in-constrained-settings/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200630T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20200630T180000
DTSTAMP:20250610T103251Z
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SUMMARY:Startup Tuesday The Hague | Scaleup edition
DESCRIPTION:A lot of startup/scaleups undergo problems when it comes to growing their business efficiently and sustainable. Frank and the Backs helps with this process by linking scaleups with experienced business people\, a Back\, with over 20+ years of experience. To see how this all works\, we will interview one of Frank and the Backs scaleups\, V-ID Blockchain\, and their Back Gert-Jan Huizer. Interested in how you can grow your scaleup\, tune in\, and make the first step through words growing your business efficiently and sustainable.
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/startup-tuesday-the-hague-scaleup-edition/
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