The Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice invites you to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the centre and a seminar on
The influence of International Law on the UN Security Council’s Agenda, Debates and Decision-making
Outline of the event:
Celebrating SCILJs 10-year anniversary
Ambassador Marie Jacobsson
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Introduction to the research project and seminar “The influence of International Law on the UN Security Council’s Agenda, Debates and Decision-making”
Mark Klamberg
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Selective Attention: The United Nations Security Council and Armed Conflict
Magnus Lundgren
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Debating Threats in the UNSC: A New Dataset on Explanation of Votes 1990-2019
Karin Sundström
The Evolution of the Perceptions of Threats to the Peace at and within the UN Security Council
Mark Klamberg and Magnus Lundgren
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Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions and the Status of Explanation of Votes
Per Ahlin and Mark Klamberg
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Q & A
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About the event
This event celebrates that SCILJ was established in 2012 and presents the findings of the research project ”The influence of International Law on the UN Security Council’s Agenda, Debates and Decision-making”. The overarching question of the project is to what extent and how international law influences states’ decision-making and actual behaviour when it comes to the use of force. The project has adopted a mixed-methods design, combining traditional legal approaches to sources of law and interpretation, empirical legal methods, and social science methods.
The speakers
Dr. Per Ahlin is a senior lecturer at the Department of Law, Stockholm University. His research is mainly focused on the role of international law in Swedish foreign policy. He teaches International Law, Constitutional law and Administrative law.
Ambassador and Dr. Marie Jacobsson is the Chair the Stockholm Centre of International Law and Justice. She is the Principal Legal Adviser on International Law at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She was a member of the U.N. International Law Commission 2007-2016 and Special Rapporteur for the topic Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts.
Dr Mark Klamberg is a Professor in Public International Law at Stockholm University. He has previously been a research fellow at the Law Faculty, University of Oxford, an Associate Professor and Senior lecturer in Public International Law at Uppsala University.
Dr. Magnus Lundgren is Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg, specializing in the study of international organizations and conflict resolution. He previously worked for the United Nations and is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Multilateral Negotiations, a nonprofit that collects and spreads best practices to support international negotiation processes.
Dr. Karin Sundström is a lecturer in political science at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. She has worked for the Folke Bernadotte Academy on issues related to women, peace and security and with research projects on the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She has studied at Sorbonne and Sciences Po (IEP) in Paris.
Registration (voluntary): scilj@juridicum.su.se, latest the same day