Human Dignity in Africa: Conference held last week in The Hague:

Objectives of the Conference

This year the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) issued a call for applications on „global change“. Given its expertise, the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict submitted a project on „human dignity in global change“, of which this conference is an integral part. First, the conference seeks to examine the economic, social, cultural, political, and legal facets of „human dignity“. In fact, human dignity is as much about collectively choosing rulers in accordance with democratic principles and enjoying a peaceful environment as it is about combating poverty, disease and hunger. Undoubtedly, human dignity is substantially diminished in times of armed conflict, not to mention in conflicts that seek to destroy particular groups. In this context Africa presents a good case study. Second the notion of human dignity is relative to the particular society under consideration. Again Africa is a good illustration of how human dignity is understood differently. The Annual Conference of the Institute is supported by the German Red Cross and EDUSAT.

Please see the program here.

The publishing of the proceedings is planned.