Deadline:
April 04, 2025
Program Starts: June 16, 2025
Location(s)
Italy
Villa Salviati
Overview
Details
The 2025 course on Human Rights engages with the question “Peace negotiations: What’s Law Got to Do with It?” in two ways.
First, the course will explore and grapple with the various ways in which law, including international law, bears on peace negotiations. In doing so, it will equip participants (lawyers and non-lawyers alike), including mediation practitioners and advisors, to address legal issues arising in negotiations.
Second, the course will interrogate and identify what (actually) amounts to law, seeking to differentiate law, and legal obligations, from other norms (political, social, cultural) that have a bearing on peace talks.
Through these insights, negotiators, facilitators, mediation practitioners, advisors, and lawyers will emerge better equipped to create, recognize, and navigate spaces within negotiations for the role of law, and within law for the politics of negotiations.
Throughout the course, participants will be exposed to the nuts and bolts of peace negotiations and will assess law’s potentially enabling and potentially restraining role.
Specific themes that will receive attention are procedural issues such as process design and representation, agenda setting, expert management, legal drafting and legal guarantees for the agreement, as well as substantive matters such as power-sharing, social and economic issues, and transitional justice.
The teaching format will include a mixture of moot negotiations, reflection sessions, drafting exercises, feedback sessions, and interactive lectures by peace mediation practitioners and scholars.
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Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
The courses are open to advanced students of law or related fields, including lawyers, specialists, practitioners, professors and researchers, and provide ample opportunities to engage in discussions and exchange ideas with experts and fellow participants working in the same field.
Applicants should have completed at least:
- 3 years of a law degree, or
- 4 years of university studies, including courses on international law and/or EU Law (to be listed on the application form)
This course will require you to do more than listen to a lecturer and take notes. You will be expected actively to take part in moot negotiations, reenactments, drafting exercises and reflection sessions.
Applicants of all nationalities are eligible.
All classes are in English and participants therefore need to have a strong command of English (level B2 of the Common European Framework Guidelines is recommended as a minimum requirement). No language certificate is required.
Admission is based on merit and motivation. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Places on the courses are very limited and candidates are advised to apply early.
Dates
Deadline: April 04, 2025
Program starts:
June 16, 2025
Program Starts: June 16, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
The course fee is €1,000 for participation in person.
- tuition: General course and active participation in the interactive learning format.
- reading materials for all sessions
- coffee breaks and luncheon vouchers
- additional activities
- networking opportunities and the opportunity to discuss your research/work experience with other participants
- the opportunity to take the Diploma examination based on a reflection essay
The fee does NOT cover:
- accommodation in Florence
- travel costs
Cancellation: a refund of 75% of the fee can be requested for cancellations up to 4 weeks before the course starts. After that time, refunds will be given only in exceptional circumstances, at the discretion of the Academy directors.
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