Lecture
Peace or Lawlessness? The Vandalisation of International Law after UN Security Council Resolution 2803
- Date
- Friday 28 November 2025
- Time
- Explanation
- please note: free entrance, but registration required
- Address
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Schouwburgstraat
Schouwburgstraat 2
2511 VA The Hague - Room
- A0.06
November 17, 2025, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2803, formally endorsing Trump’s 'Peace Plan' for Gaza. The resolution has ignited global outrage for normalising impunity for atrocity crimes, including genocide; negating ius cogens norms such as Palestinian self-determination; resurrecting direct colonial domination by placing Gaza under Trump’s personal control via the so-called 'Board of Peace'; and appearing to subordinate international law to unilateral American diktats—with the support of Europe, and much of the Arab world and the strange acquiescence of China and Russia.
This panel convenes leading scholars to dissect the resolution’s devastating implications for international law, the United Nations, and Palestine’s future.
How does Resolution 2803 undermine the foundations of ius cogens? What does its adoption reveal about the UN Security Council’s role in maintaining international peace and security? And what responsibility do states—especially Europe, Russia, and China—bear in enabling or resisting this dystopian new legal order?
Speakers
- Ralph Wilde (University College London)
- Sergey Vasiliev(Open University)
- Malte Riemann (Leiden University)
- Gjovalin Macaj (Leiden University)