In this conversation Phil Holihead, head of the Project Implementation Unit of the Djibouti Code of Conduct of the International Maritime Organization, lays out some of the lessons from piracy from the perspective of an implementation agency. He underlines the … Continue reading
In the newest edition of the “In conversation..” series, Dr. Marcus Houben, Head of the Support Team of the EU 2014 chairmanship of the CGPCS, discusses how he got first involved in the work of WG1 and contrasts the work of … Continue reading
In the latest addition to the “In conversation…” series of the Lessons Learned Project, we have spoken with Phil Holihead, head of the Project Implementation Unit of the Djibouti Code of Conduct of the International Maritime Organization. In the conversation … Continue reading
Members of the Lessons Learned Consortium met with the current chairman of the Contact Group on the 18.9. at the EEAS Headquarters in Brussels to discuss the initial outcomes of the project and ponder about the consequences for the future … Continue reading
In this interview, the current chairman of the CGPCS, Maciej Popowksi, from the EEAS explain what the Contact Group is and what the priorities for 2014 are.
Dr. Christian Bueger, Cardiff University. In 2013 the Contact Group decided to start a process of reflecting on the nature of the group, which lessons can be learned from its work and whether these lessons might be translated to other … Continue reading
Dr. Christian Bueger, Cardiff University. Capacity Building has proven to be a terrain which is very difficult to coordinate in the way the CGPCS has done in other areas, such as prosecution or operational coordination. This papers inquires what is … Continue reading
The CGPCS is an important case for International Relations scholars to understand the changes in current global governance and the trend towards informal security governance. Discussing the CGPCS in this light was the objective of an academic roundtable at the … Continue reading
In this interview Donna Hopkins, former chairman and one of the original initiators of the CGPCS discusses her experience with the group. She outlines how meetings are prepared and staged, provides advice for junior diplomats of how to prepare and … Continue reading
Paul Musili Wambua, University of Nairobi School of Law. Kenya is at the forefront of the fight against Somali piracy. If in the first years Kenya had been very active and the core state to take over prosecutions and imprisonment, … Continue reading