International Conference "From the Right to Self-determination to the Right to Peace: Human and Peoples’ Rights in the Collapsing Multilateral Order", University of Padova, 10-11 November 2025

This international conference aims to explore the intricate and complex relationship between self-determination, peace, core human and peoples’ rights and multilateralism in the current era, marked by rising aggressive nationalism and a return of power politics and armed conflict. 

Framed within such a daunting global context, the conference aims to examine how the fundamental right to self-determination and other people’s rights, such as those to a healthy environment and to development intersect with the individual and collective aspiration for peace and justice before the current status of international politics and international law. 

Confirmed speakers  include: Nazila Ghanea (University of Oxford, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief), Gamze Erdem Türkelli (Univeristy of Antwerp), Martina Pignatti Morano (Un Ponte Per...).

The International conference is organised by the Human Rights Centre “A. Papisca” together with the UNESCO Chair Human Rights Democracy and Peace and with the support of the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies of the University of Padova. 

Partner institutes include:  the Human Rights Consortium at the University of London, the UNESCO Chair in Human Security and Human Rights at the University of Graz, the School of Global Studies at the University of Goteborg, the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, the Global Campus of Human Rights (104 world universities with headquarters in Venice) and the Institute of International Studies at the University of Wroclaw.