The public ceremony takes place at the Agnietenkapel, University of Amsterdam (Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231, Amsterdam).

The public ceremony takes place at the Agnietenkapel, University of Amsterdam (Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231, Amsterdam).

The public ceremony takes place at the Agnietenkapel, University of Amsterdam (Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231, Amsterdam).

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This Special Issue is the product of the seminar on ‘Shared Responsibility in Partnerships among International Institutions’, which was held in Amsterdam on 3 October 2014. The seminar explored whether and on what grounds partnerships between international institutions (involving institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF, the WHO, the OECD and the European Union) may result in a shared responsibility between the participating institutions and/or other involved actors.

Contents of the Special Issue include:

• Laurence Boisson de Chazournes & André Nollkaemper: Partnerships between International Institutions and Issues of (Shared) Responsibility: Introductory Notes
• Niels Blokker: On the Nature and Future of Partnerships in the Practice of International Organizations
• Paolo Palchetti: Applying the Rules of Attribution in Complex Scenarios
• Katarina Grenfell: Partnerships in UN Peacekeeping
• Vassilis Pergantis: UN–AU Partnerships in International Peace and Security and Issues of Responsibility Allocation in Cases of UN Support to Regional Missions
• Marten Zwanenburg: What’s in a Word? ‘Partnerships’ between NATO and Other International Institutions and Some Issues of Shared Responsibility
• Andrea E. Stumpf: Trust-Funded Partnership Programmes of the World Bank under the ARIO
• Eelco Szabó: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
• Antonella Angelini: A Trouble Shared is a Trouble Halved

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From sexual abuses by peacekeepers, to air strikes causing disproportionate casualties, violations of international law have recurrently been occurring in the course of collaborative military operations. Yet, it often remains unclear which participant(s) can be held responsible for which wrongful conduct. This is notably because, during collaborative military operations, different elements of military control are distributed between several States and international organizations. In turn, the notion of control is often used as a legal criterion to determine responsibility. Against this background, the thesis analyses how forms and degrees of military control can translate into forms and degrees of responsibility.

In order to provide answers to the question of allocation, the study engages in a reinterpretation of existing rules through the lens of the concept of causal control. In essence, the thesis argues that a State or international organization can be held responsible when its direct or indirect exercise of, or failure to exercise, a form of control qualifies as a cause of a given wrongful conduct. In this argument, different forms and degrees of control can be causally linked to the occurrence of different types of harmful acts, and responsibility can be allocated on that basis.

The public ceremony takes place at the Agnietenkapel, University of Amsterdam (Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231, Amsterdam).

He continued: ‘Europe has a clear responsibility to help those seeking protection from war and persecution … To deny that responsibility is to threaten the very building blocks of the humanitarian system Europe worked so hard to build. European countries must shoulder their fair share in responding to the refugee crisis, at home and abroad.’

Senior UN officials stressed that the horror of the genocidal massacre at Srebrenica continued to haunt the UN 20 years after over 8000 ethnic Bosnian Muslim men and boys were slaughtered during a week of preventable brutality – the largest such massacre on European soil since the UN’s founding. The lessons learned from those ‘unspeakable’ days in July 1995 still echo throughout the UN, according to UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson who, along with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, urged better efforts aimed at prevention and greater cohesion among the international community. ‘We gather in humility and regret to recognize the failure of the United Nations and the international community to prevent this tragedy’, Mr. Eliasson told the 15-member Council ahead of a vote, marking the 20th anniversary of the tragic events at Srebrenica. ‘The United Nations has acknowledged its responsibility for failing to protect the people who sought shelter and relief in Srebrenica.’

Peacekeeping missions nowadays continue to face similar challenges such as ‘paralyzing divisions among Member States and lack of political and material support’. The UN and the UNSC would in the future increasingly have ‘a central role to play’ in strengthening prevention efforts, enforcing the responsibility to protect those in danger and enforcing the right of all people to live in ‘peace and dignity’. ‘The world looks to us here at the United Nations and to the UN Security Council and expects us to uphold that right and to meet those aspirations’, Mr. Eliasson declared. ‘That is our shared responsibility today. And it is how we can best pay homage to the victims of Srebrenica.’

Thousands of Muslim men were consequently killed and the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Court later characterised the events as genocide. This begs the question whether these three states could be held legally responsible for a failure to prevent Genocide under Article 1 of the Genocide Convention.

The Netherlands has already been held responsible before its domestic courts for the eviction of Muslim men from a compound in Srebrenica by the Dutch troop contingency Dutchbat and their role in the evacuation of refugees, because Dutchbat was aware of the serious risk of genocide of the men being separated and carried off.