Date : 24th – 25th Sept., 2014.
Venue : Amity Law School, Lucknow
TRACKS FOR THE NATIONAL SEMINAR :
- Structure of United Nations and International Conflict
(i) Role of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security
(ii) Role of General Assembly in peace keeping
(iii) Changing role of Secretary General under Article 99 of UN Charter
(iv) Individual and collective security: Its status in the post-cold war era and relation with human rights
(v) Role of regional Agencies & NGO in intervention
(vi) Reforms in the Security Council
- Constitutional and Legal Issues in the UN System
(I) Problem of membership and representation in UN Systems
(ii) Third World perspectives on UN structure
(iii) The concept of Failed/Weak States and the role of international legal community
(iv) Relationship of Art 103 of the UN Charter with the concept of jus cogens
- The changing dimensions of Intervention in the 21st century
(i) The legality of humanitarian intervention
(ii) Maintaining hegemony in the garb of Intervention: The case of Iraq, Georgia and Ukraine
(iii) The changing notion of sovereignty in international legal order: Assessing the idea of sovereignty as responsibility
(iv) Responsibility to protect: Evaluating its impact on world community
- Challenges before the United Nations
(i) Terrorism
(ii) Drug Trafficking
(iii) Xenophobia
(iv) Secession and self determination in Eastern Europe
(v) Impact of war crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing and crime against humanity and the role of International Criminal Court
(vi) Self determination & terrorism and its impact on world peace
Abstract – 250 words
• Full paper- 4000 words minimum excluding references
Abstract is to be submitted in soft copy only in MS Word Format (Typed in Times New Roman, 12 point, 1.5 spacing) . The title page of the submitted paper shall contain the article title, track code, followed by authors’ name, affiliation, communication address, email and phone details The first page of the full paper and abstract should not contain authors’ identification at any point, and should commence with article title, followed by an abstract of not more than 500 words and a maximum of five relevant keywords .
• All papers (abstract and full) must be submitted on [email protected]; [email protected]
CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION
• Certificate of participation/paper presentation will be issued to those who register themselves
• Those whose papers are accepted, but do not attend the seminar will not get the certificate
• The paper has to be presented by one of the co-authors