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The condition of international law
20-22 May 2010. 2010’s first weekend of blazing sunshine set the scene for a conference, generously sponsored by the American Ditchley Foundation, to check the health of the international legal system and to suggest ways of increasing its effectiveness. With fourteen different nationalities and (alongside the strong showing of international lawyers) a variety of professions represented, we covered an enormous amount of ground.
URL: /page/367/international-law.htm, Last Modified: 06/09/10
The functions and purposes of modern diplomacy
4-6 March 2010. This conference addressed the delicate subject of the value of diplomats and diplomacy in the modern, open and information-rich world. As one participant commented, the pain was on full display. Yet we had a fascinating and in many ways constructive debate.
URL: /page/364/modern-diplomacy.htm, Last Modified: 16/03/10
Human rights: the global approach
3-5 December 2009. At this, our last Ditchley conference of the year, we discussed the state of global human rights today, the efficacy of international systems in a challenging political climate and the strategies most likely to ensure the application of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
URL: /page/359/human-rights.htm, Last Modified: 17/12/09
Is development aid producing effective results?
11-13 June 2009. At Ditchley’s last conference of the 2008/2009 season we examined the effectiveness of development aid policy. Issues of definition were, as always, important, but participants agreed that aid was part of the larger process of development and could not be analysed without recognising the importance of trade, foreign policy and overall economic growth.
URL: /page/347/development-aid.htm, Last Modified: 22/06/09
The nature and role of international NGOs
15-17 January 2009. Ditchley opened the New Year with a conference examining the role of international NGOs. This was part of a continuing series on global development efforts, following our study last summer of the effect of population growth on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and preceding conferences later in 2009 on the effectiveness of development assistance and on global human rights efforts.
URL: /page/340/ngos.htm, Last Modified: 02/02/09
The impact of population trends on the Millennium Development Goals
29-31 May 2008. For its 2008 UN-related issue, Ditchley chose to link current performance on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with population growth trends. We had noticed – at about the same time that the House of Commons All Party group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health had produced its excellent January 2007 report – that international organisations and development policy-makers seemed reluctant to factor in population growth to the achievement of the MDGs or to the prospects for sustainable development in the longer term.
URL: /page/329/mdgs.htm, Last Modified: 10/06/08
Ditchley Foundation Annual Lecture XXXIV
July 1997. Ditchley Park contains a storied and impressive history, one that is of special significance because of the critical role it played during World War II as a wartime residence of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. As a student of foreign affairs, and world history, I have long revered Winston Churchill. Not simply as a model of leadership and guidance in a time of great adversity, but also as a master orator whose words inspired not just the British people, but millions across the globe as well.
URL: /page/321/lecture-xxxiv.htm, Last Modified: 11/01/08
Ditchley Foundation Annual Lecture XLIII
6 July 2007. First of all, this is a time of great turmoil and angst in the world. We are so consumed by events that it is sometimes hard to put them in perspective. And that’s what I want to try to do this evening: to step back and to look at the world in which we live now and at the forces that are moving the world and creating the problems we have now.
URL: /page/304/ditchley-lecture-xliii.htm, Last Modified: 05/02/08
The future of the United Nations
22-24 June 2007. Over a weekend of almost unremitting rain – a good omen, we thought, for fertile ideas – Ditchley discussed the United Nations in its global context and how it could most usefully navigate towards effective action. Huge and varied experience was gathered in the Lecture Theatre, ready to conduct a comprehensive analysis of what was going right or wrong at the UN.
URL: /page/302/united-nations.htm, Last Modified: 02/07/07
The American Ditchley Foundation Lecture I
18 April 1983. When a peal of bells rings out on the air it signals an occasion for rejoicing, and that happy state we shall enjoy when, punctual to the hour, the two Ditchleys from either side of the Atlantic mark and celebrate the 200th anniversary of the end of the American war of independence, and the beginning of peace with England.
URL: /page/261/us-lecture-i.htm, Last Modified: 13/11/06
Fisheries: managing international common resources
11-13 February 2000. We met over 11-13 February to consider the growing problems of managing one of the last common resources of the world.
URL: /page/255/fisheries.htm, Last Modified: 08/11/06
Kosovo: implications for the international system
14-16 January 2000. The first conference in the New Year brought together a distinguished group, some of whom had been key decision makers in the Kosovo crises, to look at the implications for the international system of what had happened, and was still happening, in Kosovo. We concentrated on the three main institutions involved in the crisis – the UN, NATO and the EU.
URL: /page/254/kosovo.htm, Last Modified: 07/11/06
The role of the United Nations in the 21st century
26-28 January 2001. Over the weekend of 26-28 January we set ourselves the ambitious goal of looking at the role of the United Nations in the coming century. We agreed at the outset that this was too big a canvas to be covered in a single sitting. A second Ditchley conference would look at the UN’s contribution to peacekeeping and reform of the Security Council, both central to the organisations core functions.
URL: /page/238/un-in-the-21st-century.htm, Last Modified: 14/09/06
The role of the United Nations in the 21st century: Peacekeeping and the Security Council
25-27 January 2002. Over a stormy and drenching weekend on 25-27 January we took a second look at the role of the United Nations in the 21st Century.
URL: /page/218/un-peacekeeping.htm, Last Modified: 01/08/06
Ditchley Foundation Lecture XXXV
Ditchley Foundation Lecture XXXV
URL: /page/173/lecture-xxxv.htm, Last Modified: 26/07/06
The practical implication of post-conflict peacebuilding for the international community
17-19 September 2004. The first conference of Ditchley’s new season, with a fresh, green Director in the chair next to our Conference Chairman, Lakhdar Brahimi, addressed the UN and peacebuilding.
URL: /page/128/peacebuilding.htm, Last Modified: 13/06/06
Conflict Prevention or Economic Development - Which should come first?
19-21 May 2006. We sheltered from a wet weekend and looked at conflict prevention policies in the context of development policies more generally.
URL: /page/80/conflict-prevention.htm, Last Modified: 21/07/06