This year Leiden University, and therefore our faculty, celebrates its 444th anniversary. This calls for a special festive evening for students and staff of the Faculty of Humanities.
You’ve finished your bachelor’s programme! What’s next?
Did you start the BA International Studies in 2018? And have you just successfully completed your first year? Well done! We would like to celebrate this with you at our first propedeuse ceremony.
For PRINS 2019, the Rainforest Alliance (RA) presented the case ‘Eliminating deforestation from global commodity chains’. With this case, RA was seeking effective approaches and technologies that reduce both deforestation and economic exclusion of farmers in the supply chains of cocoa, coffee, tea and bananas. In addition, they sought ‘feasible, adequate and comprehensible certification criteria’ that could be directly integrated into RA’s new small-hold farmers’ programmes across the agricultural sectors listed above.
What does life look like after International Studies? For Chris Colijn who graduated in 2018, it involves working on his Master’s in Russian and Eurasian Studies, in combination with a bustling traineeship for “Raam of Rusland”, a think tank, focusing on Russian and Ukrainian politics, economy and culture. How does he do it? In this interview, he elaborates.
For PRINS 2019, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF, formerly known as World Wildlife Fund) presented the case ‘Addressing the investment gap: exploring frontiers in sustainable finance.’ WWF was seeking solutions to complex questions around sustainable finance and development. This included a full-spectrum analysis of what drives the credibility and financial viability of sustainable finance mechanisms, examining cultural-historical, economic and political factors.
The fourth edition of the KLM Urban Trail The Hague will take place on Sunday 7 July.
For PRINS 2019, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRCMT) presented the case ‘Impact and legacies of the Yugoslav and Rwandan Tribunals’. Established by the United Nations, the IRCMT (referred to as the ‘Mechanism’) has the mandate to take over essential continuing functions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) which are tracking and prosecution of remaining fugitives, judicial proceedings, cases referred to national jurisdictions, protection of victims and witnesses, enforcement of sentences, assistance to national jurisdictions and preservation and management of archives.
International Studies offers its students ample opportunity to prepare for their future. You can now find all the information about that on "Mapping your Future" on this website.
On May 29, Mikhail Khordorkovsky visited the Leiden University Campus of The Hague to debate with students about the future of Russia. It is the first time this critic of Putin and former captain of industry visits the Netherlands. This event has been organised by the organisation Raam op Rusland and the study association of International Studies, BASIS.
