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The Second Annual Conference of the Knowledge Platform provides an opportunity for international and national policy makers, practitioners and researchers to explore the frontier of current knowledge and practice on security and rule of law issues in the 21st century.

The conference will aim to re-examine the assumptions underlying current security and rule of law policy for fragile states, generate ideas that venture beyond conventional thinking, and test whether there is drive to take these ideas forward for future developments of the Knowledge Platform, alongside the following issues

The dominant concept for establishing security and promoting the rule of law tends to work from the premise of robust enforcement by a central state authority. Can this be reconciled with modern manifestations of insecurity on urban, tribal and borderland peripheries?

For several years, a “Western” approach to top-down security has defined the policy and practice security reform interventions – to notably poor effect. With the growing salience of context-tailored, community-driven and bottom-up approaches, can alternatives or adjustments be offered to current models?

Globalization and Social Justice by Mr. Joshua Simmons | Global Financial Integrity, United States Our increasingly interconnected world has enabled networks of growth, which are also given to abuse by criminal markets and illicit financial flows. Has sufficient attention been given to the role OECD countries play in facilitating such networks, or in creating new structures of dependency and marginalization?

Together with the recently publishedIOB evaluation on Dutch Foreign Policy in Fragile States and the main outcomes of the online debate on Foreign Engagement in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts, the ideas of the speakers will form the menu of options for the afternoon break-out sessions. Participants will be actively engaged in choosing the topics of the interactive break-out sessions, which will ultimately inform the thematic foci for the Platform in the year 2014.

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Practical Information
Date: 27 February 2014
09:30 - 18:00
Venue: The Hague Institute for Global Justice
Address: Sophialaan 10, The Hague, The Netherlands

Related Resources

The recently published IOB evaluation on Dutch Foreign Policy in Fragile States

Online Debate on Foreign Engagement in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts.

Confirmed Facilitators
Mr. Jeroen de Lange, Public sector consultant & Founder TRAC | Moderator

Mr. Anton du Plessis, Institute for Security Studies Africa, South Africa | Facilitator

Professor Jok Madut Jok, The Sudd Institute, South Sudan | Facilitator

Dr. David Connolly, The Hague Institute for Global Justice, The Netherlands | Facilitator

Ms. Summer Brown, International Alert, United Kingdom | Facilitator