4 - 6 October 2016 an international Conference on Operational Maritime Law will be held at the Navy Command Finland in Turku as a cooperation between the Finnish Navy and the NATO accredited Centre of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters (COE CSW). Participants are expected to arrive from all over the world.
The conference will emphasize on Maritime Security, from an operational as well as from a general perspective. The theme of this year’s conference, "Inter mundus-From cold ice to hot sands", covers current regional issues and controversial areas of maritime law. Legal issues of the Baltic Sea area will also be covered during the conference.
The participants, invited by the COE CSW, are experts and researchers in the field of maritime law. The overall aim of the COE CSW is to identify legally challenging areas and issues in the field of maritime law, find generally accepted solutions for them and thus, trough bringing legal experts together, support the planning and execution of military operations.
Topic highlights of this year’s conference include Hybrid Warfare, the High North, operational law issues of the Arctic, for example the North-East Passage, the legal status of the Åland Islands Area from a military vessel perspective and Human Rights at Sea.
Finland has participated in the NATO partnership program since 1995 and was in 2011 invited to join the COE CSW as an active partner. Already in 2009 a Finnish naval officer was, as the first officer from a non-NATO country, appointed as first planning officer at the COE CSW. Naval officers and lawyers have actively participated in COE CSW activities.
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