SYMPOSIUM
On November 16th, a Symposium on "Sovereignty, Democracy, Human Rights: Dialogues on Perpetual Peace" took place at the International Peace Institute.
This workshop was the capstone event of the Perpetual Peace Project. It built upon the active participation of all attendees, and was structured as roundtable discussion around three key elements of Kant's essay:
- Collective security and the implications for sovereignty;
- Democracy, governance, and rule of law; and
- Human rights and cosmopolitan citizenship.
With this workshop the Perpetual Peace Project aspired to stimulate a conversation on current obstacles to international peace and security, ways to overcome them, and the implications for sovereign states. This conversation included practitioners who work directly on the prevention and solution of violent conflicts, diplomats who have the power to truly make peace a sustainable reality, and scholars who engage with the idea of peace. The workshop also featured selections from the Perpetual Peace Project film initiative, which features conversations with renowned philosophers and practitioners reflecting on Perpetual Peace with reference to current international priorities and conflicts.
Photographs from the event on November 16th.
