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Introduction and Keynote Remarks
Opening remarks by Warren Hoge (IPI), Aaron Levy (Slought Foundation), and Horia-Roman Patapievici (European Union National Institutes of Culture)
Keynote address by Norbert Darabos, Minister of Defence and Sports, Government of Austria, with
concluding remarks by Michael Doyle (Columbia University)
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Session 1: Sovereignty and Collective Security
At the heart of Immanuel Kant's essay lies the idea that the natural state between nations is war, not peace. Peace, therefore, must be established by securing the right of all nations through the foundation of a federation of free states. "This league does not seek any power of the sort possessed by nations, but only the maintenance and security of each nation's own freedom." This session will focus on the key challenges of collective security and the implications for sovereignty. What is the current condition and future potential of global collective security? What reasonable constraints on sovereignty must states accept to exit their natural state of conflict in favor of establishing a global legal order with the goal of preventing war forever? Non-state actors also have a growing influence on global collective security. How should sovereign states engage with them?
Moderated by Edward C. Luck (IPI), with opening remarks by Robert Jervis (Columbia University) and Pedro Serrano (European Union)
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Session 2: Democracy, Governance, and the Rule of Law
The first Definitive Article of Kant's Perpetual Peace states that every nation must have a republican constitution, which for Kant meant that it must have a government characterized by the rule of law and a separation of powers rather than "despotism." This session will focus on the relationship between international security and domestic governance. To what extent is collective security dependent upon the spread of democracy and the rule of law? What is the proper role of the international community in promoting good governance and the rule of law or in strengthening weak and fragile states? How should "illiberal" regimes be addressed by the international community? Are they necessarily an impediment to the establishment of lasting peace and security?
Moderated by William C. Banks (Syracuse University), with opening remarks by Pablo de Greiff (International Center for Transitional Justice) and Christian Wenaweser (Liechtenstein)
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Session 3: Human Rights and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
The Third Definitive Article of Kant's Perpetual Peace relates to the establishment of a "cosmopolitan right" to hospitality based upon a sense of common ownership over the earth's surface. In simple terms, this relates to the right to travel to a foreign country and not be treated like a spy or enemy. But, significantly, this also relates to the legal establishment of individual rights that transcend any single nation-state. This session will focus on the complex relation between individual rights and state-based international law. In a time of heightened population movements, what obligations does a right to hospitality create for the care and protection of refugees and immigrants? Who must satisfy these obligations? Currently, to what extent do human rights and international humanitarian law establish a layer of cosmopolitan or global citizenship above and beyond--or in complement to--national citizenship?
Moderated by Gudrun Harrer (Diplomatic Academy Vienna), with opening remarks by Elazar Barkan (Columbia University) and Iain Levine (Human Rights Watch)
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Acknowledgments
The recordings featured on this webpage are from a one-day workshop at the Trygve Lie Center at the International Peace Institute, United Nations Plaza in New York, on November 16, 2010.
The workshop was co-organized by the European Union National Institutes of Culture, International Peace Institute (IPI), Slought Foundation, Syracuse University Humanities Center, and United Nations University, with the support of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations.
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Participants
Saiful Azam Abdullah
Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations
Robert Afriyie
Security Council Report
William C. Banks
Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT), Syracuse University
Elazar Barkan
Columbia School of International and Public Affairs
Meiko Boynton
International Peace Institute
Rosi Braidotti
University of Utrecht
Norbert Darabos
Government of Austria
Pablo De Greiff
International Center for Transitional Justice
Ine A. Declerck
Permanent Mission of Belgium to the United Nations
Michael Doyle
Columbia University
Catherine Fieschi
British Council
Shepard Forman
Center on International Cooperation
Eugenio Vargas Garcia
Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations
Marijan Gubic
Consulate General of the Republic of Croatia in New York
David Harland
United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office
Gudrun Harrer
Der Standard, Vienna University and the Diplomatic Academy, Vienna
Warren Hoge
International Peace Institute
Robert Jervis
Columbia University
Diane Nya Kadji
Office of the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations
Emilia Katosang
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Palau to the United Nations
Gregg Lambert
Syracuse University Humanities Center
Sebastien Lapierre
United Nations Department of Political Affairs
Iain Levine
Human Rights Watch
Aaron Levy
Slought Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania
Edward C. Luck
International Peace Institute
Adam Lupel
International Peace Institute
Samer Mahmassani
Office of the Permanent Observer for the Organization of the Islamic Conference to the United Nations
Francesco Mancini
International Peace Institute
Christopher Matthews
Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations
Joanne Myers
Carnegie Council
John Palmesino
Jan van Eyck Academie
Horia-Roman Patapievici
EUNIC and the Romanian Cultural Institute Network
Milica Pejovic
Permanent Mission of Montenegro to the United Nations
Martin Rauchbauer
Austrian Cultural Forum
Ana Cristina Rodriguez-Pineda
Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the United Nations
Ann-Sofi Ršnnskog
Jan van Eyck Academie
H.E. Gert Rosenthal
Permanent Mission of Guatemala to the United Nations
Richard Sennett
London School of Economics
H.E. Pedro Serrano
Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations
Jerobeam Shaanika
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Namibia to the United Nations
Andreas Stadler
Austrian Cultural Forum NY
Hansjoerg Strohmeyer
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Nikolas Sturchler
Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations
Corina Suteu
Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
Alfredo Fernando Toro-Carnevali
Permanent Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United Nations
Claudia Maria Valenzuela Diaz
Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations
H.E. Christian Wenaweser
Permanent Mission of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the United Nations
Constance Wilhelm
Center on International Cooperation
H.E. Jean-Francis Regis Zinsou
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Benin to the United Nations
Corri Zoli
Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism
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