Fish Crime is the annual meeting of high level representatives and law enforcement agencies to discuss responses to fishery crimes and Illegeal, Unregulated and Underreported (IUU) fishing activities. The 4th meeting takes place in Copenhagen from 15th to 16th of October. Like last year I was participating as an observer. I was also chairing an off-side event organised by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Maritime Crime Programme, which investigated challenges and opportunities of maritime domain awareness in the South Pacific.
Maritime Security Seminar of BIMCO
The Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO) based in Denmark just outside of Copenhagen is holding its regular maritime security seminar on the 8th and 9th of October. BIMCO is one the largest of the international shipping associations representing shipowners. At the conference about 80 participants will discuss current challenges for transport security and safety at sea. At the conference, I will chair the opening panel which includes presentations from the Danish Navy, MSCHoA and Risk Intelligence concerning the overall strategic situation at sea.
NATO operational maritime lawyers meeting in Copenhagen
The 6th annual legal conference of the NATO Centre of Excellence on Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters (COE CSW) legal conference took place in Copenhagen, Denmark from the 25 to 27th of September. More than 130 naval officers, attorneys, and professors from 30 countries across the globe discussed contemporary maritime issues including cyber threats, self-defense, ocean conservation and marine pollution, and regional security challenges. I had the pleasure to participate in the events.
TRAMEREN conference in Copenhagen
What are the main challenges for ocean governance, international law and maritime transport? What is the role of the maritime in addressing climate change and achieving sustainable development. These are some of the core questions addressed by the TRAMEREN conference held in Copenhagen from 17.-18.9. I am attending as an observer.
Annual Conference of the European International Studies Association
From the 12th to the 15th of September the European International Studies Association (EISA) held its annual meeting in Prague. At the conference I presented a series of work in progress, including thoughts on post-critical expertise and the relation of experimentation and problematisation, a new project on Making Maritime Security Strategy (MAMAS). I also attended a rountable on the English School and the recently published SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations.
Term starts at University of Copenhagen
This week the term starts at my new university. For the next 14 weeks I will be teaching two courses at masters level: 1) a core module introducing the discipline of International Relations and its core concepts and methods, and 2) a module titled Knowledge Production and Evaluation, which introduces students of the Security Risk Management programme to core ways of how to evaluate competing knowledge claims.
Contact Group on Maritime Crime in the Sulu and Celebes Sea
From the 27th to the 28th of August, the inaugural meeting of the Contact Group on Maritime Crime in the Sulu and Celebes see will be held in Manila. The goal of the meeting under the theme “Mapping and Responding to Maritime Crime” is to draw on the sucess of other contact groups such as the CGPCS in order to improve the coordination in tackling maritime crime and building capacity. The meeting is organised by the UNODC’s Global Maritime Crime Programme regional office in Bangkok. I’ll be attending the meeting and also give a talk on the lessons from the Horn of Africa.
Edited volume on Conflict Resolution Expertise published
The volume “Assembling Exclusive Expertise: Knowledge, Ignorance and Conflict Resolution in the Global South” edited by Anna Leander and Ole Waever is now published. The book rethinks the status and role of expert knowledge in conflict resolution through a range of case studies. In my chapter in the book I revisit my trajectory as piracy expert and how the demands for expertise in the counter-piracy field has been changing. Contact me for a soft copy of the chapter.
CGPCS meeting in Nairobi
The 21st plenary of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) will be held on the 12th and 13th of July in the UN facilities in Nairobi, Kenya. The CGPCS is the main governance body coordinating the fight against piracy in the area. I have been studying the body since 2011, and I will be attending the meeting as an observer. For further information see the CGPCS website.
New blog on future of Djibouti Code of Conduct
A new blog post discusses the results of the May 2018 meeting in Jeddah on the implementation of the amendments to the Djibouti Code of Conduct. The Code is the major regional maritime security agreement in the Western Indian Ocean. The comment is co-authored with Timothy Walker and published with ISS Today, the news blog of the Institute for Security Studies.