International Maritime and Environment Agreements: cooperation, leadership and negotiation

Programme Description

There are several legal instruments designed to regulate and promote cooperation in the maritime industry and addressing environmental issues in the maritime sector. These agreements bring together countries, organisations, and stakeholders from different regions and backgrounds to negotiate and establish common standards, best practices, and solutions for a wide range of issues.

This executive training programme follows the cycle of international agreements: from the drafting stage, promulgation, national implementation, and peaceful dispute resolution through mediation, conciliation, and arbitration, focusing on the fields of environmental and maritime cooperation.

Participants will gain insights into:

• The development of environmental and maritime international agreements through research and consultation, drafting stages, emergence and context of agreements, preparing for negotiations, country alliances, and coalitions in negotiations;
• Cooperation through the multidisciplinary lenses of evolutionary theory, Darwinism, game theory, and complexity theory identify mechanisms of cooperation that are stable, self-correcting, and adaptive, creating stable and sustainable scenarios of cooperation;
• Peaceful settlement of international disputes mechanisms provided for in international law for the peaceful settlement of environmental and maritime disputes, including judicial methods, mediation, conciliation, and arbitration;
• Effective leadership, envisioning and engaging, decision making, power and influence, leading teams, driving change, mastering complexity, and practical skills development in leadership;
• Negotiation framework including resolving differences, minimising conflict, securing maximum value, managing bias and perspective, engaging with stakeholders, developing analytical tools and interpersonal techniques for dealing effectively with different bargaining styles and tactics as well as practical skills in negotiation.

This executive training course is organised in collaboration with the International Maritime Law Institute.

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Learning methods

• Interactive sessions and discussions with the instructors;
• Overview of international agreements;
• Review of case
  
  

Learning outcomes

By the end of this programme, the participants will be able to:

• Apply the process of promulgation of policies and international agreements;
• Critically assess the evolution of cooperation in international environments;
• Create stable scenarios of cooperation, mediation, and dispute resolution;
• Identify the various mechanisms for the peaceful settlement of disputes;
• Apply leadership and negotiation theory in real scenarios;
• Lead and negotiate in the design, delivery, and implementation of agreements.
  
  

Who should attend

• Policymakers, legal practitioners, and regulators in the environmental and maritime sectors;
• Environmental and maritime practitioners, national administration officers, foreign Relations experts, academics, economists, and lawyers;
• Postgraduate students who wish to pursue a career in the field.