[center][/center]Blue Economy and the Oceans Governance: Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean Rim Association Member States

Blue Economy and the Oceans Governance hold key to achievement of millennium development goals as well as sustainable development goals. While the oceans governance is largely regulated by the law of the sea regime, specifically, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, blue economy covers areas beyond and within the oceans governance. The missions and works of several governments and international organisations - United Nations and its Specialised Agencies, International Seabed Authority, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Indian Ocean Rim Association, AALCO bear direct significance to issues and challenges posed by the twin concept of blue economy and the oceans governance. While several maritime OECD states have taken a lead and have blue print before them, developing coastal states of Africa, Asia and the Pacific are in need and finding extremely important to fully realise the benefits of the ocean space for their population. Laws, policy, practices, issues and challenges differ from state to state, like any other international legal regime.

A platform to share these and other ideas on a regular basis for foreign policy officers dealing with law of the sea and maritime laws and other departments of government and international organisations dealing with blue economy and the oceans governance, scholars and think-tanks is essential. To learn and move forward towards preparing blue-prints for respective economies, GNLU 2015 Edition of the Advanced Issues of Public International Law has a theme on “Blue Economy and the Oceans Governance”.

Aim of the Academy:

1. To share and exchange policy and regulatory developments in Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean Region on blue economy and the oceans governance.

2. To identify issues and challenges with an aim to achieve participation of all relevant stakeholders in national plans of action.

3. To discuss ways and means to promote collaboration between developed and developing maritime nations to derive maximum benefits from the implementation of the law of the sea regime for sustainable development.

For further details prospective participants can refer to the following link for the brochure and the GPILA 2015 Application form - http://www.gnlu.ac.in/news-inner.php?newsId=311

Contact Details in case of any query-

Name - Sushil Goswami

Phone number - 8128650813

Email ID – (gpila2015[at-the-rate-of]gnlu[dot]ac.in)