Keynote Speaker: The Missing Peace: International Law of Intrastate Relations

International Law at the School of Historical Studies Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He specializes in intra-state conflict resolution and has served as mediator and advisor in peace processes in regions ranging from Chechnya to New Caledonia. He is currently the Executive President of Kreddha, an international, non-governmental organization for the prevention and resolution of violent intra-state conflicts, which he co-founded in 1999. He served as UN Senior Legal Advisor to the Foreign Minister of East Timor, Dr. Jose Ramos Horta, during the country’s transition to independence as part of UNTAET, and has for many years served as a legal advisor to His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Office on international matters. Dr. Michael van Walt van Praag graduated in law from the University of Utrecht, where he also obtained his doctoral degree in Public International Law, and he practiced law with the law offices of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington D.C. and London and Pettit & Martin in San Francisco and Washington D.C. He has held visiting teaching and research positions at Stanford, UCLA, Indiana, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Golden Gate University School of Law. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles on a variety of topics related to intrastate conflict and the relations of peoples and minorities to states. His most recent contribution was to the African Union’s handbook on ‘Managing Conflicts,’ published in English, French and Arabic. He is now engaged in work on the causes of conflicts and obstacles to their resolution, focusing in particular on the ways in which history is perceived and mobilized by the antagonistic parties

23rd Annual Fulbright Symposium: International Law in a Multipolar World

Golden Gate University School of Law - Sompong Sucharitkul Center for Advanced International Legal Studies presents: The 23rd Annual Fulbright Symposium on International Legal Problems: International Law in a Multipolar World Keynote Speaker: Professor Michael van Walt van Praag Professor van Walt van Praag is a visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at the School of Historical Studies in Princeton, NJ; Executive President of Kreddha, an international non-governmental organization which he founded in 1999 for the prevention and resolution of violent intra-state conflicts; and an international lawyer specializing in intra-state conflict resolution. He previously served as advisor and consultant to numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations in peace talks in regions ranging from Chechnya toPapua New Guinea. Professor van Walt van Praag has held visiting teaching and research positions at Stanford, UCLA, Indiana, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Golden Gate University School of Law

Keynote Speaker: The Missing Peace: International Law of Intrastate Relations

International Law at the School of Historical Studies Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He specializes in intra-state conflict resolution and has served as mediator and advisor in peace processes in regions ranging from Chechnya to New Caledonia. He is currently the Executive President of Kreddha, an international, non-governmental organization for the prevention and resolution of violent intra-state conflicts, which he co-founded in 1999. He served as UN Senior Legal Advisor to the Foreign Minister of East Timor, Dr. Jose Ramos Horta, during the country’s transition to independence as part of UNTAET, and has for many years served as a legal advisor to His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Office on international matters. Dr. Michael van Walt van Praag graduated in law from the University of Utrecht, where he also obtained his doctoral degree in Public International Law, and he practiced law with the law offices of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington D.C. and London and Pettit & Martin in San Francisco and Washington D.C. He has held visiting teaching and research positions at Stanford, UCLA, Indiana, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Golden Gate University School of Law. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles on a variety of topics related to intrastate conflict and the relations of peoples and minorities to states. His most recent contribution was to the African Union’s handbook on ‘Managing Conflicts,’ published in English, French and Arabic. He is now engaged in work on the causes of conflicts and obstacles to their resolution, focusing in particular on the ways in which history is perceived and mobilized by the antagonistic parties

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The Contribution of International Law to the Resolution of Self-Determination Conflicts

Michael van Walt van Praag is an Advisor on International Law and Conflict Management and Resolution and Adjunct Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law. He is a Member of the Netherlands Development Assistance Research Council and Legal Advisor to the Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama and to the Tibetan Government in Exile, and Special Counsel for United Nations Affairs. He holds a Doctorate in the Science of Jurisprudence and a Meester in de Rechten (J.D. and LL.M. equivalent) from Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht (Utrecht State University) and an LL.M. from Wayne State University School of Law in Michigan. Professor van Walt van Praag served as General secretary of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and Consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He was advisor to the Chechan Government Delegation in negotiations between the Chechen Republic and the Russian Federation as well as an Associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington D.C. and London. He is a member of the New York Bar and has published extensively in English, German Dutch and French, including Self-Determination in a World of Conflict-A Source of Instability or Instrument of Peace? (in Fetschrift: L. Bouchez, Kluwer Law); Commentary to \u27The Bell Curve of Ethnic Politics: Rise and Decline of Self-Determination Movements in India (by Atul Kohli) \u27 (in Self Determination and Self Administration: A Sourcebook, Lynne Reiner); The Right to Self Determination and the De-Colonisation Process (in Tibetan People \u27s Right of Self Determination, TPPRC and Friedrich-Naumann Foundation); and A Concept of Nation in International Law {book review, LEIDEN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Vol. 6 No. 1)

The status of Tibet history, rights, and prospects in international law

xxiv, 381 p.; 22 cm