Topic: How International Law Supports Citizens Seeking Global Solutions

Presenters: Rebecca Shoot

In a world where so many conflicts are contested on the battlefield, how can international law offer a better way? Rebecca A. Shoot is the Executive Director of Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund, which is Working for a Peaceful, Free, Just, and Sustainable World Community. She will review some of the initiatives that Citizens for Global Solutions has taken to enhance awareness and compliance with international law particularly regarding use and control of nuclear weapons and preserving the world’s climate.

Rebecca Shoot is an international lawyer and democracy and governance practitioner with more than 15 years of experience in the non-governmental, inter-governmental, and private sectors supporting human rights on five continents.  She is recently involved with the “Summit of the Future” process, which is being hailed as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for global governance reform. Citizens for Global Solutions specific advocacy has been to try to ensure that international justice, human rights, and the rule of law are a respective and central element of this process and its outcome document, the “Pact for the Future.” In doing so, Rebecca Shoot was a penholder on the Peace and Security chapter of the companion “People’s Pact,” which contains recommendations to enhance the international judicial architecture. They will host a side event at the Civil Society “Action Days” around the Summit in late September on the future of global governance. 

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