UNOCHA have co-organised a community session to examine the characteristics of responsible and sustainable models for collaboration between humanitarian organisations and private sector entities vis-a-vis data management. How can humanitarians assess and balance expected benefits against potential risks when deciding to collaborate with the private sector? With speakers from Digital Impact Alliance, OCHA, UNICEF and […]

The concept of vulnerability has been a key concept in studies of disasters and climate change. Vulnerability brings out the socially produced ways in which groups are rendered safe or unsafe in view of hazards. The concept has been a radical move in disaster studies as it took the natural out of natural disasters, and […]

Join our monthly drinks to connect or reconnect with fellow Humanity Hub members, and other innovators in peace, justice, and humanitarian affairs! Feel free to bring your friends and guests. We always have the space for a semi formal talk on a relevant topic, followed by networking drinks in a relaxed setting. Would you like […]

Movies that Matter Festival in The Hague is the international film and debate festival in the Netherlands. Each year, the festival presents a varied program with various films and documentaries about human rights in Filmhuis The Hague and Theater aan het Spui. ACTIVITIES During the Movies that Matter Festival many activities take place every day. […]

Water resource management is essential to sustainability, especially in view of global environmental change driven by climate, population, and land cover change activities. The topic is included within the U.N Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 6): 'Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.' As Leiden University and adjacent local organizations span a […]

Leiden Socio-Legal Series Lecture This paper discusses the varieties of hybridization of dispute resolution processes from “purer” forms of negotiation, mediation, arbitration and adjudication, and surveys how these processes have now been combined and hybridized to form such processes as “med-arb”, “arb-med”,  ombuds, online dispute resolution (ODR), and other forms of dispute resolution and decision […]

In just 60 years, we’ve collectively created more than 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste. And almost 80% of this has been estimated to end up in a landfill and as litter polluting our land and oceans. There’s no way around it. We need to create a circular plastics system in which plastic never becomes waste or […]

Are you curious about what goes on in the Humanity Hub? Are you working on innovations in peace, justice and humanitarian action? Would you like to join likeminded individuals and increase your impact through collaboration? At our Humanity Hub Experience Day you get to become a Humanity Hub member for a day! During your time […]

The Hague Hacks, in partnership with Movies that Matter and Border Sessions, is excited to invite you to our Ideation Session on March 25th, at 15.30, at The Filmhuis in The Hague. Film is a powerful tool against social indifference. In the footsteps of the Amnesty International Film Festival, Movies that Matter continues to share […]

In order to cope with a fast changing world, we need to adapt to survive, yet create value in the present. How can we experiment and be effective at the same time? Balance innovation and operation? And where do we start in creating such an ambidextrous organisation? We invite you to explore these issues together […]

Initiatives that want to do good are starting all around us. But how do you actually do that? Actually do something good for your fellow human beings? Goed Goed Doen is a new non-profit platform that wants to help starters with these questions. They do not only offer a platform, but also provide tailor-made support with […]

Peace Innovation Lab's co-director Mark Nelson is giving a talk on data normalization & The Hague Peace Data Standard on the 27th March. Former relief-worker, investment banker, and social entrepreneur, Mark Nelson founded and co-directs Stanford Peace Innovation Lab, where he researches mass collaboration and mass interpersonal persuasion. Mark focuses on designing, catalyzing, incentivizing, and generating […]

Does slavery still exist? Yes, 40 million people worldwide are victims. Although slavery is forbidden in almost every country, millions of children, women and men are forced to work as slaves in different industries. At Keen Design we like to dream big. IJM does that too and dreams of a slave-free world. They are also […]

What is… What’s Hub Lunch? A regular lunch-time gathering where Hub members share a meal, while getting to know one another better. Each time, a different member will act as a host during the meal and facilitate the interaction between participants in a fun and relaxed setting. When and where is it happening? Every first […]

Everyone has the right to justice. However all around the world, people and communities have difficulty getting access to justice. The need to improve access to justice is, therefore, part of the Sustainable Development Goals. During this HagueTalks you will hear personal stories from people all around the world that work with local communities to […]