New International Partnership in Ocean Governance and Capacity Building

The Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy has been invited to participate as an academic host institution in both the United Nations – Nippon Foundation Fellowship Programme for Human Resources Development and Advancement of the Legal Order of the World's Oceans and the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea. This is an international recognition of expertise in the law of the sea at the Centre, particularly at the ocean-climate nexus. It provides an opportunity to integrate Durham colleagues' research findings into international capacity-building initiatives coordinated by the UN Division on Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, including but not limited to the wide network of Fellowships Alumni who are mid-career government officials from Global South countries.

The objective of the Fellowship is to provide opportunities for advanced education and research in the field of ocean affairs, the law of the sea and marine sciences to Government officials and other mid-level professionals from developing States, so that they may obtain the necessary knowledge to assist their countries/regions to formulate comprehensive ocean policies and to implement the legal regime set out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and related instruments.

As a host institution, the Centre will support a 6-month period of advanced academic research, normally between July and December of each year, through the guidance of subject-matter expert(s) who have recognized in-depth expertise in the Fellows' chosen field of study.

List of host institutions: https://www.un.org/oceancapacity/content/host-institutions