- When
- 29 June to 1 July 2023
- Where
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Theme
- Is international law resilient?
The call noted that Australia and New Zealand are long-standing supporters of the rules-based international order and asked whether that order can survive acute and systemic shocks. It listed the pressures of the early 2020s: the invasion of Ukraine, geopolitical tension between China and the West, the visible effects of climate change, the continuing pandemic, supply-chain disruption and cyber and technology threats.
Questions posed included whether international institutions and law are resilient to these threats, whether international law can help ecosystems and communities withstand environmental degradation, whether it still has the tools to prevent war, whether the Security Council and the International Court of Justice can still contribute to peace and peaceful dispute settlement, how international organisations adapt, and whether resilience is helped by how domestic systems incorporate and interpret international law. Proposals closed on 17 February 2023 after an extension.