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lilleputtu · 1 year
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Lille's Kingdom Events Generator
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It is done-ish! And by that I mean the most basic form of this lil idea I had is ready to be unleashed on the world.
But Lille, what even is this?
Why thank you for asking, audience in my head. This is a random generator that reads in a list of events and a list of kingdoms and gives you random events that make sense to happen to said kingdoms based on requirements. Kinda like everyones beloved ROS, but instead of being for single households usually, it's on a more neighborhood scale and has a few more ways for you to influence which events roll.
I am bad at explaining it, but I promise it makes sense.
Is it necessarily a sims thing? Absolutely not! I am sure you could use this for writing prompts or random events in a TTRPG campaign or whathaveyou. But my main thought was "medieval simmers would love to have a random thing to throw natural disasters or war refugees from whatever fictional 'other' kingdoms are around in their minds at them" because I AM that medieval simmer.
So here's what you get:
An .exe which randomizes things, ala ROS, but while taking requirements into account.
An XML with sample events to generate. Are they good? Eh, they'll do. This is why it's an XML, so you can edit it and someone smarter than me can make a cooler version.
An XML with sample Kingdoms, upon which the requirements for the events are tested. They are named A,B,C,D and E and just had random-ish values thrown at them. Edit them. make them your own!
A Readme, which explains things in more detail.
Huge thanks to @clouseplayssims for throwing some inspiration in the form of every single ROS list in existence at me and being one of my initial guinea pigs, as well as enabling the silly little idea in the first place.
Alrighty, to the download, yes?
DOWNLOAD(SFS)
Note: Due to how I turned the base python code into an exe, some antiviruses flag it as a possible Trojan. I do not know how to fix that. I can only say that me and my 200 lines of code do not want to damage your computer or steal your monies, I promise.
Further note: I compiled and tested this on Windows 10. It might work on other operating systems, but i make no promises. If anyone is running into issues like that and or knows how to compile a python script, please let me know, i am more than happy to pass you the sourcecode so more people can have a functioning version of this.
I will happily answer any questions, take suggestions or try to do tech support, just let me know!
Also definitely feel free to share your edited events/kingdoms files. My examples are thrown together haphazardly and it SHOWS.
Also - you can totally use it for non medieval things. Just write modern events and ignore the fact that the program calls things in the kingdom file kingdoms. They could be cities, or planets, or whatever else you can come up with!
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Je suis né gentilhomme, de bonne maison. Le nom de d'Artagnan était déjà connu quand je vins au monde.
Courtilz de Sandras, 1701.
Charles Ogier de Batz was born around 1612 in Castelmore near Lupiac in Gascony. He joined the company of musketeers around 1633, taking his mother's name, d'Artagnan, and the title of count. The historical d'Artagnan, the one originally portrayed by Courtilz de Sandras and the one more famously inspired by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet (Maquet was Dumas closest collaborator and never got the proper credit) have a few things in common. Both the de Sandras and Dumas versions of the real d’Artagnan were cadets from Gascony, who went to Paris to 'take up service' and became courageous and loyal musketeers to the king.
In 1646, the musketeers were dismissed and d'Artagnan entered Mazarin's service as one of his "ordinary gentlemen". His loyalty to the minister and the king during the troubles of the Fronde earned him a number of delicate missions, which revealed his tact and humanity, as well as rewards, such as the position of captain of the King's little dogs hunting deer. When the musketeers were reconstituted, d’Artagnan became a lieutenant in the first company of musketeers (1665), he soon became its captain-lieutenant (1667). It was said that this was the finest position in the kingdom, and D'Artagnan fulfilled it marvellously. His company soon became a model company, as brilliant as it was well trained, and the king congratulated him on several occasions.
It was as captain of the musketeers that d'Artagnan took part in the 1667 campaign in Flanders, with the rank of cavalry brigadier. He was part of Turenne's army, which besieged and captured Lille, and was appointed governor of that city. He was still there in 1672 when the Dutch war broke out. His so-called Memoirs say very little about this episode in his career. Nevertheless, he played an important role in the capital of French Flanders. It was he who had Vauban's plans for the new fortifications of the city carried out.
Dumas and Maquet, somewhat taking artistic licence (see the end of the Vicomte de Bragelonne) portraying d'Artagnan as commanding an army corps in front of the siege of Maastricht. It was there on the battlefield, shortly before the action in which he took part, he received a letter from Colbert, in which the minister announced that the king had just made him Marshal of France. But this is nonsense. The king did not need Colbert's pen to inform the captain of his musketeers of his decision regarding such a great reward; Louis XIV was in command in person before Maastricht, and he could have said to d'Artagnan: "Monsieur, je vous fais maréchal”. But he never said it. D'Artagnan was not yet a lieutenant-general; he only held the rank of marshal of the King's camps and armies.
In any case on 25 June 1673 Captain-Lieutenant d’Artagnan was killed at the siege of Maastricht. Siege warfare could be as dangerous as battlefield combat. As it was, d'Artagnan was not on duty that day, but events shifted, requiring his presence. He was hit in the throat by a stray bullet, which killed him.
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mwplanet · 3 years
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France gets its 25th unicorn three years early
Macron acknowledged last year that Europe should think bigger – with a new plan to foster 10 European tech giants valued at $100bn by 2030
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By Maritta Gostanian
The year 2021 was a watershed moment for the industry, with French digital businesses raising 11.6 billion euros in capital — up 115 percent from the previous year.  It was also the year in which Sorare, a startup based on non-fungible tokens, raised the most money in France. In fact, they raised 586 million euros (NFT). With only a few weeks before the start of 2022, the year was already looking bright for French Tech, with five separate crowdfunding campaigns generating a total of 1.7 billion euros.
On Monday, January 12, 2022, France joyfully declared the country's twenty-fifth unicorn when industrial business Exotec disclosed it had received $335 million in investment, giving it a $2 billion value.  A unicorn is a privately held startup firm valued at over $1 billion in the business world.  Aileen Lee, a venture investor, coined the word in 2013, using the legendary animal to signify the statistical rarity of such successful companies.  
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Exotec, a warehouse robotics business located in Lille, has aided French President Emmanuel Macron in achieving his unicorn target of 25 by 2025, three years ahead of schedule. Macron, dressed in a Steve Jobs-style turtleneck, took to Twitter to commemorate the event, proclaiming that French start-ups are the best in the world. "Here we are! These 25 startups valued at more than a billion dollars, and with them all French Tech, are changing the lives of French people, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs all over France, making our sovereignty! It's only the beginning."
The advent of these unicorns in a nation where there were only three in 2017 may look unbelievable, but it's small news on a worldwide scale. With 644 unicorns, the United States is no match for this tough competition. With regards to other European nations, France trails Germany's 33 unicorns and the United Kingdom's 51 unicorns.
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With that much cash on hand, the sense behind counting unicorns as they're currently classified is debatable. For some, the answer is no. Macron, for one, agreed last year that Europe needed to think larger, announcing a new goal to create ten European digital behemoths worth $100 billion by 2030. Others, such as Green Party presidential candidate Yannick Jadot, have wider, less quantifiable aims in mind. “If I am elected, I will not just count our unicorns, I will put in place a long-term strategy,” said Yannick Jadot, Europe Ecologie-Les Verts candidate for the 2022 presidential election.
The number of unicorns in Europe is increasing and French businesses may have yet another prosperous year in 2022. Macron, who is poised to run for president again in April, would benefit from this. Under his belt, he has a robust start-up ecosystem backed by foreign investment, as well as eight times the number of unicorns as when he first took office. 
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drjacquescoulardeau · 7 years
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WE ARE BEING TRUMPED OUT OF THE GAME Dr. Jacques Coulardeau follows H.G. Wells, T.S. Eliot, and C.S. Lewis on the roads of perdition: WW1, WW2, and COLD WAR.
 H.G Wells got lost between eugenics and Josef Stalin.
T.S. Eliot got puzzled between historical necessity and peace.
C.S. Lewis got called to the fantasy side of our life.
 And yet they were able to foresee the future after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Cold War. The ambition of one power to take over the world will lead that world to an impasse so blind and so dead that even a rat could not get out of the end of this alley, let alone the aging muskrat in Washington DC and the youngish Raccoon in Pyongyang.
 If you do not believe me just ask National Geographic about raccoons: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/r/raccoon/.
 THREE ETERNAL MODERN GOSPELS IN TIME OF WAR
H.G. WELLS – T.S. ELIOT – C.S. LEWIS
TRUMP DENIED SALVATION
A Series In One Introduction And Five Parts
 TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE WHOLE SERIES
(A full book of 128 typed pages, 61,925 words, published in six installments on https://medium.com/@JacquesCoulardeau)
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THREE ETERNAL MODERN GOSPELS IN TIME OF WAR
H.G. WELLS – T.S. ELIOT – C.S. LEWIS
TRUMP DENIED SALVATION
INTRODUCTION
(1,139 words)
https://medium.com/@JacquesCoulardeau/three-visionary-writers-confronted-to-war-2a49cda01633
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0- T.S. ELIOT, The Hollow Men
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THREE ETERNAL MODERN GOSPELS IN TIME OF WAR
H.G. WELLS – T.S. ELIOT – C.S. LEWIS
TRUMP DENIED SALVATION
PART ONE: GOD’S DEATH AND SUBSEQUENT RESURRECTION
(8,332 words)
https://medium.com/@JacquesCoulardeau/three-eternal-modern-gospels-part-one-f48b9418fba9
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1- GOD’S DEATH AND SUBSEQUENT RESURRECTION, FROM FAUST TO APOCALYPTO (Université Catholique de Lille, 2007)
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 THREE ETERNAL MODERN GOSPELS IN TIME OF WAR
H.G. WELLS – T.S. ELIOT – C.S. LEWIS
TRUMP DENIED SALVATION
PART TWO: H.G. WELLS, THE TIME MACHINE
(7,446 words)
https://medium.com/@JacquesCoulardeau/three-eternal-modern-gospels-part-two-7ec0b9988d0f
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2- H.G. WELLS, THE TIME MACHINE, (Guide de la littérature britannique des origines à nos jours, eds Jean Pouvelle & Jean-Pierre Demarche, Ellipses, Paris, 2008)
3- THE TIME MACHINE, A DYSTOPIC UTOPIA (2007)
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THREE ETERNAL MODERN GOSPELS IN TIME OF WAR
H.G. WELLS – T.S. ELIOT – C.S. LEWIS
TRUMP DENIED SALVATION
PART THREE: T.S. ELIOT, MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
(13,594 words)
https://medium.com/@JacquesCoulardeau/three-eternal-modern-gospels-part-three-49c63ca5adcb
TABLE OF CONTENTS
4- T.S. ELIOT, MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL, (Guide de la littérature britannique des origines à nos jours, eds Jean Pouvelle & Jean-Pierre Demarche, Ellipses, Paris, 2008)
5- THOMAS BECKET ET THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT, ou PEUT-ON AVOIR FOI EN L’HISTOIRE ? (Théâtres du Monde, n° 18, Avignon France, 2008)
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THREE ETERNAL MODERN GOSPELS IN TIME OF WAR
H.G. WELLS – T.S. ELIOT – C.S. LEWIS
TRUMP DENIED SALVATION
PART FOUR: C.S. LEWIS, MARTYRDOM VERSUS EUGENICS
(10,469 words)
https://medium.com/@JacquesCoulardeau/three-eternal-modern-gospels-part-four-2c349fc66880
TABLE OF CONTENTS
6- A CONTRADICTORY BACKDROP FOR C.S. LEWIS, MARTYRDOM VERSUS EUGENICS (Université Catholique de Lille, 2011)
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THREE ETERNAL MODERN GOSPELS IN TIME OF WAR
H.G. WELLS – T.S. ELIOT – C.S. LEWIS
TRUMP DENIED SALVATION
PART FIVE: C.S. LEWIS, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA IN SHADOWLANDS
(9,099 words)
https://medium.com/@JacquesCoulardeau/three-eternal-modern-gospels-part-five-8e3726ade357
TABLE OF CONTENTS
7- C.S. LEWIS & THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, BBC REWRITING AND ADAPTATIONS, RADIO AND TV
8- SHADOWLANDS, LIVING WITH JOY, LOVING JOY WITH LOVE AND HOPE
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INTRODUCTION
 I will dedicate this series of studies to all the Hollow Men of the world and I will borrow the dedication from T.S. Eliot, my middleman here, the only one who could lead us beyond the eugenics believer in social Darwinism, H.G. Wells, and to the kingdom of peace, empathy and love of the Lion Aslan, aka C.S. Lewis.
 It will certainly take a lion to help us step over the roaring showing-off of the muskrat and the raccoon strutting on the stage of our apocalypse as if they were Zeus and Apollo. Who will be the four knights who will put an end to the strife and commit a modern murder in the cathedral, or should we say it is a mosque, a Buddhist temple or maybe a synagogue?
 After the war of words, there is always either the competition at who will spit longer and farther or the sudden public befriending that leads to some compromise. Such a compromise was not possible with Hitler and Chamberlain. Will it be possible with Trump and Kim? Stalin stayed on the penalty line, watching and correcting the absurd treaty of Versailles as for the borders of the USSR with Poland. Will Putin and Xi stay on the penalty line much longer? And what can they bring on the table to pacify the aging muskrat and the youngish raccoon? It will take more than a pound of flesh to solve the problem.
 No matter what may happen, one thing is sure the world order of 1989 or 1990 is finished, over, terminated and he who was first will probably not be last but he will be at best second or third. For many reasons, some clear, some not clear at all, what we call today the west which was only Christian Europe in the 15th century, became preeminent in the world, tilting it away from Asia which had been the most dynamic region before the expansion of the Portuguese and the Spanish along with slavery, trans-Atlantic slave trade, colonialism, all of these meaning the deadly exploitation of the rest of the world by the European minority, with the Muslim world in-between, controlled without being controlled by the west, under the protection or protectorate of the west.
 As Hal Brands writes on September 27; 2017, in “America’s New World Order Is Officially Dead, China and Russia have fully derailed the post-Cold War movement toward U.S.-led global integration.” (https://medium.com/bloomberg-view/americas-new-world-order-is-officially-dead-8ad17ada0b6): “The age of integration is thus over, in the sense that there is no realistic, near-term prospect of bringing either Russia or China into an American-led system.” Hal Brands obviously does not realize that what he calls integration is perceived as assimilation or even homogenization by everyone else in the world and that appears to people as being nothing else but an advanced form of colonialism generally referred to as imperialism.
 The USA does not seem to understand that the railroads built by the Chinese with some financing from Japan connecting Mombasa in Kenya to Central Africa (Uganda and Rwanda among others) and to Ethiopia (Addis Ababa and further) are one thousand more important for the world, and particularly Africa, than one thousand US drones in Yemen and 60 Tomahawk missiles in Syria, thirty-six of which were hi-jacked by Russian military hackers and never reached their target. The show of strength turns into a farcical vaudeville that kills quite a few collateral victims who have asked nothing.
 And the US menace North Korea with “fire and fury,” and a few other bird names, knowing that anyway they will not do it, or if they did they would be rejected by the global community, including the Brexiteers of Britain and the AfD Teutonic Musketeers of Germany, since it would mean a nuclear third world war that would break the record of casualties of the second world war. It could even reach one trillion victims, not to mention the long-term contaminated and genetically perverted victims already alive or to be born.
 The world cannot go on living in that kind of domination. Colonial empires have fallen. The West is jumping from one financial crisis to the next, growing backward as compared to what it used to be. Asia is growing so fast that it might take less time for it to overtake the west than to imagine this event.
 Is it the interest of the west to crush Asia under bombs? Is it even, the interest of the USA to crush Asia under bombs. Shouldn’t we speak of getting out of the Middle East, out of Central Asia and not putting our fingers in the rest of Asia? Apparently, Uncle Sam is divided, though the top man there seems to favor a good old show of power in fury and fire, and other four-letter words like grab (like land grab) and a few more he used in Alabama recently against NBA professional players, reinventing at the same time the meaning of “fire” and rediscovering that it may mean dismiss or discharge. Who under the sun ever likes four-letter F-words?
 I thus give you the following compilation of studies on three authors who were confronted to the first half of the 20th century, or slightly more, and have become the three gospel writers of this time. H.G. Wells and his fascination for eugenics, social Darwinism, and Stalin. T.S. Eliot and his own fascination for violence in history and the call for justice and peace. C.S. Lewis and his very own fascination for a children’s world of adventure, struggle for freedom, and liberation.
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 Eugenics is only the current form of genetic cleansing and as such is not much different from colonialism, imperialism and other slavery systems that exploit all “genetically inferior” beings to death in order to produce a profit as long as they are able to survive. The principle is the belief that all human beings should be identical and those who cannot for any reason (skin color, religion, language, gender, or whatever) have to be exploited to death, and even after death everything has to be used and recycled in the corpses for the benefit and profit of those who are genetically normal.
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iamlordmoldyshorts · 8 years
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In direct contrast to my trip to Spain, my trip to Belgium was entirely relaxed.  Rather than flying, I decided to take a bus just so I’d be able to say that I’d partook (partaken?) in that particular experience. (Never Again)
My trip to Belgium fell directly on the tail-end of my trip to Spain.  Upon arrival at the airport from Madrid, I hopped on the bus and went straight to Kings Cross Theatre, determined to see if I could wisely conduct my 18 hours in London before departing for Brussels.  As it turned out, I ended up with a ticket to see In the Heights (again) at 8:00pm that very night.  With six hours to spare before the show, one would think I’d use my time wisely, go home, unpack, repack, relax a bit before traveling again.
One would be wrong.
I went to go see Rogue One.
I finally returned home at 11:00pm and got my life together.  I was up at 5:00am the next morning to book it to my bus.  (I very nearly missed the bus due to the confusing system of six different bus lines heading to the same place…but I made it!)
I slept through roughly the first two hours of the trip but was wide awake by the time we reached Dover.  (You know…the one with the cliffs?  I couldn’t get a great photo from the bus, but here you go anyway.)
After waiting quite a while to get through passport control at the docks, our bus drove onto a ferry where we were told the crossing would take about an hour and a half.  We were allowed off the bus, so I went to explore the ferry a bit.  Found a seat by a dirty window and proceeded to be impressed and intimidated by the vastness of the Dover Strait.
The water was very choppy but we survived.
First view of France! Calais.
Second view of France. Looks a lot like midwest USA, to be honest.
Once we hit Dunkirk, we hung a right and traveled Southeast towards Lille, then Northeast towards Brussels.  I arrived at Gare de Bruxelles-Nord (the Northern train station) at about 6:00pm (it was a looong day on the bus…) and took the metro to get to my hostel (that was an adventure all on its own).
Brussels was the very first place where I opted into a mixed dorm rather than a female dorm (simply due to cost) so of course, when I went to drop my stuff, I discovered that I was more than likely rooming with three guys (they weren’t there…but I could tell by the general state of disarray of the room.)
Anxious to be out and walking around (you would be too, had you spent that long on a bus,) I bundled up and went for a walk.
Stumbled upon a Christmas Market here.Wandered until I found some waffles…cause Belgium.
After waffles, I wandered through the drizzle and came across a plaza with a Christmas tree and this building. Stunning, but I had no clue what I was looking at…
From here, I wandered back to the hostel and relaxed for the rest of the evening.  Read a book.  Hung out in the common room (literally hugging the radiator) and talked to a lovely guy from Australia who was traveling Europe for a year.
By the time I went upstairs, the three guys I was sharing a room with were already asleep so I tiptoed around, getting ready for bed, and called it a night before midnight (unlike me, I assure you.)
The following morning, I realized I wanted to go on a walking tour, so I made my way to the center of the city to find the highly-touted 10:30 tour.  As it happens, I got to the plaza early (10:10) and latched onto a 10:00am tour instead.  Hindsight tells me this was a great decision because I got to experience Brussels through the eyes of Adrien Deslandes with Sandemans New Brussels and it was a wonderful experience.
I truly didn’t realize how much a tour guide makes or breaks your trip until my poor experience in Cambridge, so I’m quite glad that I found a fun and energetic tour guide with a propensity for bad jokes that no one but me laughed at.
We started the tour in Grand Place, a large Market Square. In fact, the same one I had found the night prior.  Please note, to my eternal dismay, that the building itself is not symmetrical.  WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS TO ME?
Adrien told us the history of Brussels in this square, including its destruction, reconstruction, and relevance to WWII.
Huge Christmas tree. (Slightly more decorous than the glowing blue monstrosity in Madrid.)
Cute little cottage in the middle of Grand Place.
A brief history of Brussels largely paraphrased from Wikipedia (history included only because Adrien made it so fascinating.  Feel free to skip this if you don’t care about historical relevance. ;)
Brussels was founded sometime around 979 when it was determined to be an optimal position of trade between Bruges, Ghent, and Cologne.  The surrounding marshes were eventually drained and by the 13th century, the city got its first walls.
By the 15th century, became the Princely Capital of the prosperous Low Countries, and flourished.  In 1516 Charles V, heir of the Low Countries, was declared King of Spain and in 1519, became the new ruler of the Habsburg Empire and was subsequently elected the Holy Roman Emperor.
In 1695, King Louis XIV of France sent troops to bombard Brussels with artillery. It was the most destructive event in the entire history of Brussels. A third of the city, including 4000 buildings and The Grand Place, was destroyed.  However, the subsequent reconstruction of the city profoundly changed the appearance and left numerous traces still visible today.
Captured by France in 1746 during the War of the Austrian Succession, the city was handed back to Austria only three years later.  Brussels remained with Austria until 1795, when the Southern Netherlands was captured and annexed by France. It remained a part of France until 1815, when it joined the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.  This was all well and good for 15 years until there was a revolution in 1830 that began at the opera house (a proper rage…at the opera house…)
Brussels became the capital and seat of government of a new nation.
Because of its convenient location, during World War I, Brussels was an occupied city, but German troops did not cause much damage. It was once again occupied during World War II and was spared major damage during its occupation by German forces before it was liberated by the British.
Because of its history, the people of Belgium speak two different languages; Dutch and French.
Wandering out of Grand Place, we crossed a few streets and headed for the second stop on the tour.
Adrien explained that comics were (and are) a large part of Belgian culture.  As a result, there are art pieces like this all around the city, sanctioned by the city, complete with placard detailing where to find the next in the series.  Like an art scavenger hunt, if you will!
Right around the corner from the first art piece, we happened upon Brussels most famous statue, Manneken Pis.
Mannekin Pis literally translates from Dutch to mean “Little man Pee.”   No one actually knows the origin or inspiration of the statue.  As Adrien tells it, this location was likely near the city tannery and the statue is an homage to these tanneries, where urine was used in the processing of leather, as the ammonia in urine helps make leather more supple.
Though he wasn’t when we visited, throughout the year, Mannekin Pis gets dressed up for a variety of holidays and has even been stolen quite a few times.
From there, we walked straight through the city:
Another comic installation.
Supremely cool facade of a building.
Not even original content, but it got a hearty guffaw as we walked by.
Our next stop was the Operahouse where we were told of the 1830 revolution.  This is great.
Catholic partisans watched the unfolding of the July Revolution in France, details of which were being reported in the newspapers. On 25 August 1830, at the opera house, an uprising followed a special performance of Daniel Auber’s The Mute Girl of Portici, a patriotic opera telling the story of an uprising against the Spanish masters of Naples in the 17th century. After the duet, Sacred love of Fatherland, many audience members left the theater and started riots. The crowd poured into the streets shouting patriotic slogans. The rioters swiftly took possession of government buildings.
Never let it be said that the Belgians aren’t passionate about art.
We stopped at a restaurant/bar for a bit of a break, whereupon I went out to scour for some frites (french fries) because that’s a thing that happens in Belgium.
We trekked up a large hill and found ourselves at the St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral, the national church of Belgium.
Although St. Michael is the patron of Brussels, St. Gudula is the most venerated patroness. She is depicted on a seal of the church holding a candle in her right hand and a lamp in her left, which a demon is trying to extinguish. This refers to the legend that she went to church before daybreak and a demon, wishing to stray her off the right way, extinguished the candle, but the saint obtained from God that her lantern should be rekindled.  She was interred in this Cathedral.  However, in 1579 the church was pillaged and wrecked by beggars, and the relics of the saint disinterred and scattered.  (Womp wah…)
From here, we continued our walk through the outer rim of the city and stopped at the Royal Palace of Brussels.
Wide street in front of the Palace.
The Palace itself, which, of course, has a controversial history.
First built in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Royal Palace has been renovated and updated several times, even being destroyed in a fire in the mid-1700’s.  The most notable changes, however, were developed under the reign of King Leopold II.
After the Belgian revolution the palace was offered to Leopold I when he ascended the throne as the first King of the Belgians. Just like his predecessor, he used the palace mainly for official receptions and other representational purposes and lived elsewhere. During his reign little was changed. It was his son, Leopold II, who judged the building to be too modest for a king of his stature, and who kept on enlarging and embellishing the palace until his death in 1909. During his reign the palace nearly doubled in surface.
How’d he afford this, you might ask?  Well…
Leopold laid claim to the Congo, (now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo,) and at the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, the colonial nations of Europe authorized his claim by committing the Congo Free State to improving the lives of the native inhabitants. From the beginning, however, Leopold ignored these conditions (like a dick…). He used great sums of the money from exploitation of a mercenary force in the region for public and private construction projects in Belgium.
Leopold extracted a fortune from the Congo, by the collection of ivory and eventually by forced labor from the natives to harvest and process rubber. Under his regime anywhere from 2-15 million of the Congolese people died; a consensus growing among historians that the total was around 10 million. Human rights abuses under Leopold’s regime contributed significantly to these deaths. Reports of deaths and abuse led to a major international scandal in the early 20th century, and Leopold was ultimately forced by the Belgian government to relinquish control of the colony to the civil administration in 1908, just one year before his death.
So all in all, he was kinda an asshole.  Good times.
We finished out tour at Mont des Arts Garden.
Garden
Building-side clock.
Art piece surrounding a set of stairs. Even functionality can be beautiful here.
We asked Adrien why the trees were white. He joked that it was artistic in nature and when we just stared at him, he confessed that it was due to an overwhelming number of drunks running face-first into the trees at night. The city colored the trunks white so they could be seen at nighttime. (A MUCH better explanation.)
At this point, our tour ended, so another girl from the tour and I set off on our own to find food and wander a bit more.  On the recommendation of a friend, we returned to the Opera area and visited a restaurant called Drug Opera, known for their waffles.
So sweet and fluffy that they aren’t offered with syrup.
We wandered a bit more and, determined to try all the foods, we stopped in at a Tex-Mex place to sample their wares.  God, I miss Tex-Mex.
Fajitaaaaaaas!
We meandered the Christmas Markets a bit before going our separate ways.
An extremely blurry photo of a street-entertainer I saw on the way home.  Playing three or four instruments simultaneously, he was also making two puppets dance.  He had quite an audience.
That night at the hostel, I finally met my roommates, three delightful guys from Malaysia who were studying architecture in Germany.  They had spent the day in Bruges, a pilgrimage I was making the following day, so I discussed the sights with them for a bit.  (A good decision, as they kindly informed me that Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child was in Bruges…this statue being the inspiration behind the historically semi-accurate film/book The Monuments Men.)
I went to bed, thinking happy thoughts of the following day when I’d get to visit small-town Bruges and spend the entirety of the trip quoting a film I hadn’t seen in years.
But more on that in my next post.
All in all, I went to Brussels without a plan.  I spent the majority of the time wandering around both with and without a tour guide.  I scoured several Christmas Markets (as one does when in Europe during Christmastime.)  I made friends with Malaysians, Australians, and Canadians.  I enjoyed the simplicity of visiting the city–the fact that I didn’t have to stick to a plan aside from traveling to/from each city.
I don’t necessarily think I’ll be able to handle traveling without an itinerary every time I travel, but for the first time I could definitely see the merits.  (For example, I’m doing three nights in Latvia later this week.  No plans.  Just…three nights in Riga.  More to follow.)
Next blog: Bruges!
Waffles and Fries but Not at the Same Time In direct contrast to my trip to Spain, my trip to Belgium was entirely relaxed.  Rather than flying, I decided to take a bus just so I'd be able to say that I'd partook (partaken?) in that particular experience.
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International Architecture Awards 2020 Winners
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International Architecture Awards 2020 Winners
3 Sep 2020
International Architecture Awards 2020 Winners
Greek architects award over 125 new buildings and urban planning projects from 38 nations in this year’s 15th edition of the 2020 international architecture awards
Announcing the Oldest and Largest Global Awards Program Featuring the World’s Most
Prominent Architecture Firms to be Officially Celebrated at “The City and the World”
Exhibition and Gala Reception in Athens, Greece on September 11
A new corporate headquarters building by Morphosis
Architects in South Korea, a new museum by Mecanoo in Taiwan, a new bridge and passenger
clearance building by Aedas and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in Macao and Hong Kong, the
world’s largest urban park by Omrania and Henning Larsen Architects in Saudi Arabia, four new
skyscrapers by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, a stunning urban design by ASPECT Studios/Kengo
Kuma in Sydney, a restored museum by Frank Gehry, a new Miami High-Rise by Herzog & de Meuron,
a New London Tower by SOM, two new bridges by WilkinsonEyre, a new mixed-use building by
MVRDV in Amsterdam, innovative residential architecture by NADAAA and Christ.Christ. associated
architects, a sleek tower by Pininfarina, a new house in Russia by J. MAYER H. und Partner, three
innovative projects by Trahan Architects in the USA, 3XN Architects’ Olympic House in Lausanne,
Switzerland, and a new McDonald’s restaurant in Chicago by Ross Barney Architects head the list of
this year’s awarded projects for 2020.
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for
Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies are delighted to announce the 2020 International
Architecture Awards as the global architecture award for the world’s best new buildings and urban
planning projects from over 38 nations.
Founded in 2005, these Awards for International Excellence demonstrate how buildings and urban
planning projects worldwide stretch the boundaries of architecture, irrespective of style, complexity, and
size of both scheme and budget.
The Awards are regarded internationally as the world’s most important global mark of excellence, recognizing the best international architecture practices, as well as the hundreds of corporate clients, developers, state and local governments, institutions, and general contractors that produced them.
“We are thrilled to recognize and celebrate architectural excellence across the globe,” states Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Architecture Critic and President of The Chicago Athenaeum.
“It is our intention that these awards uncover the world’s most innovative and visionary architecture and their professional practices, as well as spark local and global debates about the positive impact that well-designed buildings and places can have on local communities and the environment.”
“Each year, we discover how architecture is reacting to and resolving issues posed by the changing demands of a global community.”
“These awards set a standard by which to assess and promote design excellence on a global scale.”
Out of a record number of projects that were entered in 2020, over 400 submissions were shortlisted.
“These successful projects demonstrate the world’s best visionary and innovative thinking and excellence of execution by a global design practice, along with developers and clients,” continues Narkiewicz-Laine.
This year’s selected buildings and urban planning projects are from 38 nations including: Albania, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Latvia, México, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, United Kingdom, The United States, and Vietnam.
The 2020 Jury for Awards was held at Contemporary Space Athens and consisted of the following Greek architects, critics, and architecture educators:
• George Tsolakis, Architect, National Technical University of Athens
• Giannis Giannoutsos, Architect Engineer, National Technical University of Athens
• Iro Nikolakea, Architect, Head of Exhibition and Cultural Events, National Museum of
Contemporary
Art (EMST), Athens
• Konstantina Siountri, Architect, Ministry of Environment and Energy, Athens
• Manolis Vourakis, Architect, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – University of Leuven
• Marianna Athanasiadou, Architect, schema architecture & engineering, Athens
International Architecture Awards 2020 Shortlist
The 125 plus awarded projects for 2020 include:
AIRPORTS AND TRANSPORTATION CENTRES
Felix Fischer Architekten – Tram Schwabinger Tor, Munich, Germany
Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects – Richmond Ferry Terminal, Richmond, California, USA
Aedas in Joint Venture with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners – Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and Hong Kong Port Passenger Clearance Building, Hong Kong, SAR
Aedas – Hong Kong West Kowloon Station, Hong Kong, SAR
BRIDGES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
WilkinsonEyre – CF Toronto Eaton Centre Bridge, Toronto, Canada
WilkinsonEyre/Urban Agency – Lille Langebro, Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter Kuczia Architects – Solar Activation of Footbridges for Beijing, Beijing, China
Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects – Center Street Garage, Berkeley, California, USA
CIVIC AND COMMUNITY CENTERS
IMO Architecture & Design – Xiafu Activity Center, New Taipei City, Taiwan
3andwich Design / He Wei Studio – Stone Nest Amphitheatre for Community Activities, Weihai, Shandong Province, China
Mobile Architectural Office – The Albert Schweitzer Community Centre in Dammarie les Lys, Dammarie les Lys, France
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
Ferrier Marchetti Studio – Grand Central Saint Lazare, Paris, France
Di Vece Arquitectos – Estudio-Galería Di Vece Arquitectos, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Ross Barney Architects – McDonald’s Chicago Flagship, Chicago, Illinois, USA
CORPORATE OFFICE BUILDINGS
Morphosis Architects – Kolon One & Only Tower, Seoul, South Korea
Takenaka Corporation – Asahi Facilities Hotarugaike Dormitory KAEDE, Osaka, Japan
3XN Architects – Olympic House, IOC – International Olympic Committee New Headquarters, Lausanne, Switzerland
Takenaka Corporation – Kanda Holdings Headquarters, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Ricardo Yslas Gámez Arquitectos – Anteus Constructora Headquarters, Zapopan, Jalisco, México
Trahan Architects – Ochsner Center for Innovation, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. – 52 Lime Street, London, United Kingdom
CULTURE AND MUSEUMS
Mecanoo – National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
PLY Union Limited – Redevelopment of Art Museum Annex, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR
Haworth Tompkins – The Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
Lemoal Lemoal Architectes – Civic and Cultural Centre Gonzague Saint Bris, Cabourg, France
Aedas – Zhengzhou Cultural District, Zhengzhou, China
China Architecture Design & Research Group – Garden Art Museum, Nanning Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
Kaunitz Yeung Architecture – Munupi Arts Centre, Northern Territory, Australia
GPY Arquitectos – MIAC Castillo de San José, Arrecife, Lanzarote Island, Spain
Ennead Architects – Yangtze River Estuary Chinese Sturgeon Nature Preserve, Shanghai, China
Shenzhen Tanghua Architect & Associates Co., Ltd. – Bishan Art and Cultural Center, Chongqing, China
FXCollaborative – The Statue of Liberty Museum, Liberty Island, New York Harbor, New York, USA
Shanghai United Design Group – Qingpu Archives, Shanghai, China
Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University Co., Ltd. – Chenjiagou – ‘Impression Tai Chi’ Theatre, Chenjiagou, China
Trahan Architects – The Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, Arrival Garden and Moody Pavilions, Austin, Texas, USA
DISPLAY/INSTALLATIONS
DP Architects Pte. Ltd. – Why Green? Singapore, Republic of Singapore
MUTUO and urb—in – Boyle Tower, Los Angeles, California, USA
UNITEDLAB Associates LLC. – Cloud Forests—Pavilion for Children’s Play, Hwaseong, South Korea
ENTERTAINMENT
EID Architecture – The Panda Pavilions, Chengdu, China
EXPOSITION
SZAD/Atelier Apeiron/Yunchao Xu – Future Exhibition Center in Baoding, Baoding/Hebei, China
Shenzhen Tanghua Architect & Associates Co., Ltd. – Tianfu International Conference Center, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
Peter W. Schmidt Architekten GmbH – Annex for the Bamberg State Archive, Bamberg, Germany
EID Architecture – Medog Meteorological Center, Medog County, Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet
HEALTH CARE/HOSPITALS
IDOM – BioCruces Institute Headquarters, Barakaldo, Basque Country, Spain
StudioVRA – Day Care Center for People with Alzheimer’s Disease, Benavente, Zamora, Spain
fjmt – The Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Ventura + Partners – Nefrodouro Dialysis Clinic, Santa Maria de Lamas, Portugal
Kaunitz Yeung Architecture – Walu – Win Wellness Centre, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
HIGH RISES/SKYSCRAPERS
NOVO Architects Ltd. – Mesong Tower, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates – Spring City 66, Kunming, China
Valdez Arquitectos – Best in Black, Puebla, México
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. – 10 & 30 Hudson Yards, New York, New York, USA
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. – Azrieli Tower, Tel Aviv, Israel
HOTELS/HOSPITALITY
UnitedLab Associates LLC. – Round Retreat, Kurzeme, Latvia
Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates – Mogana Hotel, Kyoto, Japan
AW² – Architecture Workshop 2 – Kasiiya Papagayo, Guancaste, Costa Rica
Liminal Architecture – Coastal Pavilions Freycinet Lodge, Coles Bay, Tasmania, Australia
Raulino Silva Arquitecto – Canine and Feline Hotel, Parada, Vila do Conde, Portugal
Marge arkitekter – Naturum Trollskogen, Öland, Sweden
De Zwarte Hond/ Monadnock – Park Pavilion—The Hoge Veluwe National Park, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Stinessen Arkitektur – Manshausen 2.0 Island Resort, Nordskot/Steigen, Norway
INDUSTRIAL
MR STUDIO Corporation – Aida Precut Division Ibaraki Factory, Ibaraki, Japan
LIBRARIES
RDH Architects (RDHA) – Idea Exchange Old Post Office Library, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
RDH Architects (RDHA) – Springdale Library and Neighbourhood Park, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
MONUMENTS
Johnson Pilton Walker Pty. Ltd. – Anzac Memorial Centenary Project, Sydney, NSW, Australia
MIXED-USE
Manuelle Gautrand Architecture – Le Belaroïa, Montpellier, France
Shanghai United Design Group – Wuxi Institute of Quantum Studies, Wuxi, China
MVRDV – Valley, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Trahan Architects – Julia Street Mixed-Use Development, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING
Herzog & de Meuron – Jade Signature, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, USA
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. – Manhattan Loft Gardens (The Stratford), London, United Kingdom
Younghan Chung Architects – Floating Cubes, Cheongwon-Gun, South Korea
fjmt – Wonderland, Sydney, Australia
Pininfarina SpA – Sixty6, Limassol, Cyprus
PRIVATE HOUSES
Caballero Colón – Can Canyís, Capdepera, Spain
Christ.Christ. associated architects GmbH – Haus E, Wiesbaden, Germany
Ian Moore Architects – Redfern Warehouse, Sydney, Australia
Alain Carle Architecte Inc. – True North. Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects – Spring Road Residence, Ross, California, USA |
Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects – Spectral Bridge House, Venice, California, USA
Sanjay Puri Architects – 18 Screens House, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
J. MAYER H. und Partner – n.n. Residence Moscow area, Russia
Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute – Comfort in Context, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
81.waw.pl – Field House, Warsaw, Poland
Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute – GASEA-The Cliff House, Taitung City, Taiwan
David Jameson Architect – Manifold House, Arlington, Virginia, USA
NADAAA – Villa Varoise, Le Var, France
David Jameson Architect – Vapor House, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
David Jameson Architect – Wildcat Mountain Residence, The Plains, Virginia, USA
Fernanda Marques Arquitetos Associados – Panorama, San Paulo, Spain
MIA Design Studio – Sky House, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Atelier Jun – The Boulder House, Seoul, South Korea
Grupo Zegnea – Box XL Houses, Guimarães, Portugal
A-01 (a Company / a Foundation) – No Footprint House (NFH), Ojochal, Costa Rica
Gort Scott Architects – The Rock, British Columbia, Canada
Hyunjoon Yoo Architects – Private D House, Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited – Smith Residence, Upper Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Architect 49 House Design Ltd. – Veyla Natai Residences, Phang Nga Takua Thung District, Thailand
Sergio Conde Caldas Arquitetura – Capuri House, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Architects 49 (Chiangmai) Limited – Pillars House, Phrae, Thailand
Gronych & Dollega Architekten – An Steins Garten, Gießen, Germany
L’EAU design – Diaspora, Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
MHN Design Union – Double Bay Residence, New South Wales, Australia
Cherem Arquitectos – House C, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
PUBLIC SPACE
Heams & Michel Architectes – Boat Users on the Port of Cannes, Cannes, France
West-line Studio – Bamboo Forest Gateway, Zhuhai National Park, Chishui, Guizhou Province, China
Kris Lin International Design – Flying, Jiangyin, China
RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS
Omrania – KAFD Grand Mosque, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Hyunjoon Yoo Architects – The Hug, Sejong-si, Korea
RESTAURANTS
Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute – The Green Isle, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
RETAIL/SHOWROOMS
Kris Lin International Design – Circle, Chengdu, China
Kris Lin International Design – Navigator, Tianjin, China
RESTORATION/RENOVATION
Gehry Partners, LLP. – Philadelphia Museum of Art Renovation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
JC architecture – JCA Living Lab, Taipei City, Taiwan
Atelier Brückner GmbH – Wagenhallen, Stuttgart, Germany
SquareWorks – #7 Southlands, Mumbai/Maharashtra, India
Kris Lin International Design – Textile, Deqing, China
SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES
WilkinsonEyre – Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, Malmesbury, United Kingdom
Studioarch4 – Servete Maçi Primary and Secondary School, Tirana, Albania
GL Studio/Shenzhen University Institute of Architecture Design & Research Co., Ltd. – Shenzhen MSU-BIT University Student Center, Shenzhen, China
Atelier Brückner GmbH – Kindergarten, Troisdorf, Germany
CCA Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica – Club de Niños y Niñas, Chiconaulta, Ecatepec De Morelos, Estado de México, México | 2018
Ennead Architects – Seoul Foreign School, New High School, Seoul, South Korea
SPORTS AND LEISURE
Approach design (ZUP) – The Cloud Town Convention and Exhibition Center (Phase II), Hangzhou, China
URBAN PLANNING/LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Batlle i Roig Arquitectura – Scenic Path Along Igualada’s Old Gypsum Mines, Igualada, Spain
HASSELL – Collect and Connect – Resilient South City, South San Francisco, California, USA
ASPECT Studios and Kengo Kuma and Associates – Darling Square, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Orania and Henning Larsen Architects – King Salman Park, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
ENOTA – Koper Central Park, Koper, Slovenia
Hoàng Thúc Hào Architect – Jackfruit Village. Co Dong Commune, Son Tay Town, Hanoi, Vietnam
All buildings and urban planning projects can be viewed at www.europeanarch.eu or at www.chi-athenaeum.org and www.internationalarchitectureawards.com .
This elite group of buildings and urban planning projects selected by the jury will be premiered in an exhibition at Contemporary Space Athens (74 Mitropoleos Str., GR-105 63 Athens, Greece) opening September 11 and continuing through October 11, 2020.
The exhibition is entitled “The City and the World” and is scheduled to travel in Europe through 2021.
The official Awards Presentation is postponed this year, but takes place at a Gala Awards Dinner and Ceremony adjacent to the Acropolis in Athens, Greece next September 2021 due to the COVID-19 Crisis. For more information, contact: [email protected].
The buildings and urban planning projects are also published as a catalogue for Global Design + Urbanism XX (“New International Architecture”) edited by Christian Narkiewicz-Laine for Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. and is available through The European Centre and www.metropolitanartspress.com.
The deadline for the 2021 International Architecture Awards is December 1, 2020.
Submissions for 2021 can be made on line at www.internationalarchitectureawards.com
The Chicago Athenaeum:
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601 S. Prospect Street
Galena, IL 61036
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Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)1 670 8781
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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Call for Submissions: Nuclear Weapons and International Law: Visions of a Plural World
Call for Submissions: Nuclear Weapons and International Law: Visions of a Plural World
A call for submissions has been issued for a book on “Nuclear Weapons and International Law: Visions of a Plural World.” Here’s the call:
Ces dernières années, le désarmement nucléaire s’est retrouvé au centre de l’actualité internationale. Les événements se sont accélérés, donnant à cette thématique une visibilité et une importance sans précédent.
Ainsi, entre autres choses, la 9e Conférence d’examen du Traité de non-prolifération nucléaire de 2015 s’est terminée par un échec, laissant un goût amer à de nombreux États. Le dernier essai nucléaire nord-coréen de janvier 2016 a été suivi, en mars 2016, de l’adoption par le Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU de la Résolution 2270, qui est venue durcir les sanctions contre la Corée du Nord. En mai 2016, le Japon a accueilli la première visite d’un chef d’État américain en exercice, Barack Obama, lors d’une cérémonie dans la ville d’Hiroshima commémorant les premiers bombardements atomiques de 1945.
En octobre 2016, bien que la Cour internationale de Justice se soit proclamée incompétente dans l’affaire des Obligations relatives à des négociations concernant la cessation de la course aux armes nucléaires et le désarmement nucléaire initiée par les Îles Marshall contre des puissances nucléaires – l’Inde, le Pakistan et le Royaume-Uni –, ce cas a permis de mettre sur le devant de la scène internationale les dégâts causés par les essais nucléaires et l’impératif d’œuvrer au désarmement nucléaire.
Faisant suite à trois conférences intergouvernementales sur l’impact humanitaire des armes nucléaires, réalisées entre 2013 et 2014, en octobre 2016, l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies a adopté à une large majorité la Résolution L.41 visant à «Faire avancer les négociations multilatérales sur le désarmement nucléaire» dans l’objectif qu’un instrument juridiquement contraignant d’interdiction des armes nucléaires soit négocié au cours de l’année 2017.
Ces divers événements récents montrent à quel point les espoirs et les défis sont nombreux dans un monde pluriel où les États, dotés et non dotés, continuent de s’opposer dans ce domaine hautement sensible.
À ce jour, en dépit d’une littérature abondante sur des points spécifiques, aucun ouvrage n’a rassemblé les différentes visions prévalant au sein de la communauté internationale. C’est à cette lacune que notre projet d’ouvrage cherche à remédier.
Nous sommes donc heureux d’initier ce projet de grande envergure et de diriger un tel ouvrage dont l’objectif sera d’être publié en français et en anglais. Afin d’atteindre la représentativité la plus large, nous le plaisir de lancer le présent appel à contributions afin de recevoir des textes d’experts exposant la vision de leurs divers pays et/ou continents.
Les propositions de contributions, ne dépassant pas 500 mots et accompagnées d’une courte biographie, sont à envoyer jusqu’au 15 mai 2017 à Mme Catherine Maia, Professeure à la Faculté de Droit et de Science Politique de l’Université Lusófona de Porto ([email protected]) et M. Jean-Marie Collin, Consultant sur les questions de défense et de sécurité internationale ([email protected]).
Les auteurs des contributions retenues seront contactés pour le 15 juin 2017. Les contributions finales seront attendues pour fin janvier 2018 au plus tard.
Elles devront être écrites en français ou en anglais, d’une longueur moyenne de 10 à 15 pages pages A4 (Times New Roman 12, interligne simple), notes de bas de page à la fin de chaque page (taille 10, interligne simple).
Catherine Maia (co-directeur)
Professeure à la Faculté de Droit et de Science Politique de l’Université Lusófona de Porto (Portugal), visiting professor à Sciences Po Paris et aux Universités Catholiques de Lille et de Lyon (France), directrice du Réseau Multipol – Réseau d’analyse et d’information sur l’actualité internationale (http://reseau-multipol.blogspot.com) Jean-Marie Collin (co-directeur) Consultant indépendant sur les questions de défense et de sécurité internationale, directeur du PNND pour la France et les pays francophones (Parlementaires pour la Non-prolifération et le Désarmement Nucléaire), vice-président IDN (Initiatives pour le Désarmement Nucléaire), chercheur associé GRIP (Groupe de Recherche et d’Information sur la Paix et la Sécurité)
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In recent years, nuclear disarmament has been at the center of international news. The events have accelerated, giving this theme an unprecedented visibility and importance.
Among other things, the 9th Review Conference of the 2015 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty ended in failure, leaving a bitter taste to many States. The latest North Korean nuclear test of January 2016 was followed, in March 2016, by the UN Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2270, which tightened sanctions against North Korea. In May 2016, Japan hosted the first-ever visit by an American head of State, Barack Obama, to a ceremony in the city of Hiroshima commemorating the first atomic bombings of 1945.
In October 2016, although the International Court of Justice declared itself incompetent in the case of the Obligations concerning negotiations relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race and to nuclear disarmament initiated by the Marshall Islands against nuclear powers – India, Pakistan and the United Kingdom – this case brought to the forefront of the international arena the damage caused by nuclear testing and the imperative of working towards nuclear disarmament.
Following the three intergovernmental conferences on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, which took place between 2013 and 2014, in October 2016, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, by a large majority, the Resolution L.41 on “Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations” with the aim to negotiate in 2017 a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.
These various recent developments show that many hopes and challenges exist in a pluralistic world where nuclear-weapon States and non-nuclear-weapon States continue to oppose each other in this highly sensitive area.
To date, despite an abundant literature on specific issues, no book has gathered the different visions prevailing in the international community. This is this gap which our book project seeks to remedy.
We are, therefore, pleased to initiate this large-scale project and to edit such a book, the aim of which will be to be published in French and English. In order to achieve the widest possible representativeness, we are pleased to launch this call for papers to receive expert papers presenting the vision of their various countries and/or continents.
Proposals for contributions, not exceeding 500 words and accompanied by a short biography, are to be sent until May 15, 2017 to Ms. Catherine Maia, Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Lusófona University of Porto ([email protected]) and Mr. Jean-Marie Collin, Consultant on international defense and security issues ([email protected]).
The authors of the selected contributions will be contacted by 15 June 2017. The final contributions will be expected by the end of January 2018.
They should be written in French or English, with an average length of 10 to 15 A4 pages (Times New Roman 12, single spacing), footnotes at the end of each page (size 10, single spacing).
Catherine Maia (co-directeur)
Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Lusófona University of Porto (Portugal), visiting professor at Sciences Po Paris and the Catholic Universities of Lille and Lyon (France), Director of the Multipol Network (http://reseau-multipol.blogspot.com)
Jean-Marie Collin (co-directeur)
Independent consultant on defense and international security issues, Director of PNND for France and Francophone countries (Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament), Vice-President IDN (Initiatives for Nuclear Disarmament), Associate Researcher at GRIP (Group for Research and Information on Peace and Security)
[via International Law Reporter]
http://www.dipublico.org/105701/call-for-submissions-nuclear-weapons-and-international-law-visions-of-a-plural-world/
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