Abiodun Williams
| Abiodun "Abi" Williams | |
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December 24, 1961 Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Alma mater | Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy |
| Profession | Diplomat, academic |
Abiodun Williams (born 1961 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is the first President of The Hague Institute for Global Justice in The Hague, Netherlands and a noted academic in conflict prevention, peacekeeping, and conflict management. He was formerly a senior official at the United Nations.
In January 2013, Williams became President of The Hague Institute for Global Justice, which is an independent ‘think and do tank’ established to conduct interdisciplinary policy-relevant research, develop practitioner tools, and facilitate knowledge-sharing on issues at the intersection of peace, security and justice. Under Williams, the Institute has advanced cutting-edge research, and developed its convening power by providing a platform for global leaders and notable thinkers to engage with the community of policymakers, diplomats, entrepreneurs and academics in The Hague and the wider region. It has forged key partnerships with a range of important established institutions.
The Hague Institute in partnership with the Brookings Institution established the Justice Stephen Breyer Lecture on International Law in 2014 and the Madeleine K. Albright Lecture in Global Justice in 2015. In partnership with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Security Archive at George Washington University, the Institute organized a twentieth anniversary conference on the Rwandan Genocide in 2014, and a similar conference on the Srebrenica Genocide in 2015. In 2014 the Institute and the Stimson Center convened the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, co-chaired by former US Secretary of State, Madeleine K. Albright and former Foreign Minister of Nigeria, Ibrahim Gambari. The Commission’s final report, Confronting the Crisis of Global Governance, was launched in 2015 and develops new frameworks for collective action in response to threats to global security and justice.
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