Professor (Dr.) Bimal N. Patel
Director
Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Monday, 25 January 2016
Invitation for Participation / Nomination to GNLU Maritime and Blue Economy and Ocean Governance Academy, 6-12 March 2016, Gujarat, India
Dear Colleagues,
Gujarat National Law University (www.gnlu.ac.in), a premier national law university of India, is announcing GNLU Maritime Developments, Blue Economy and Oceans’ Governance Academy 2016 from 6 to 12 March 2016. The 2016 Edition will have two major themes of “Maritime Developments and the Blue Economy and Oceans’ Governance”.
The Academy aims to provide reinforcement of knowledge, understanding and proficiency of maritime law required to perform responsibilities assigned to the senior officials and shipping executives. The fluidity and complexity of the nature of maritime issues and interdisciplinary response by maritime security officers require a deep understanding of the law of the sea, maritime laws, policies and regulations. Modern ship-owners and operators, and vessel officers are subjected to increasingly detailed and rigorously enforced environmental, security, safety and political (embargo / sanctions) regulations and requirements. The consequences of non-compliance can be catastrophic. The Academy offers participants the opportunity to meet like-minded professionals in a sympathetic but nonetheless demanding academic-research oriented atmosphere in which valuable professional knowledge can be gained and shared.
Blue Economy and the Oceans Governance hold key to achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While the oceans governance is largely regulated by the law of the sea regime, specifically, the UNCLOS, blue economy covers areas beyond and within the oceans governance. The missions of UN and its Specialised Agencies, International Seabed Authority (ISA), International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) and AALCO bear direct significance to issues and challenges posed by the twin concept of the blue economy and the oceans governance. While several maritime OECD states have taken a lead and have blue print before them, developing coastal states of Africa, Asia and the Pacific are in need and finding extremely important to fully realise the benefits of the ocean space. Laws, policy, practices, issues and challenges differ from state to state, like any other international legal regime. Therefore, Academy aims to share and exchange policy and regulatory developments in Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean Region on blue economy and the oceans governance, to identify issues and challenges with an aim to achieve participation of all relevant stakeholders in national plans of action and to discuss ways and means to promote collaboration between developed and developing maritime nations to derive maximum benefits from the implementation of the law of the sea regime for sustainable development.
Invitation: GNLU has pleasure to invite you and your institution to nominate 1-2 persons dealing with maritime law, law of the sea, blue economy and the oceans’ governance.
Funding: GNLU is exploring funding assistance for participants from developing countries. While the University will employ its efforts, we encourage you to solicit assistance from various departments, UN agencies, law of the sea foundations, diplomatic missions of India in your country, among others. GNLU will be pleased to endorse a request for funding for needy participants.
Mr Sushil Goswami, Assistant Professor, Academy Coordinator ( / mobile + 91 812 865 0859) or Mr Chhote Lal Yadav, Deputy Coordinator (email: / mobile + 91 851 118 8723) will be happy to provide you further information.
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Looking forward to hearing from you, we remain.
Sincerely yours,
Bimal N. Patel
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