The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Progress, Challenges and the Way forward to a Principled Implementation

The Global Migration Centre is pleased to invite you to  a two-day conference at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Maison de la paix, from the 24 to 25 November 2022.

This conference, entitled ‘The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Progress, Challenges and the Way forward to a Principled Implementation', brings together independent international experts in the field of migration governance and international law.

The aim of the conference is to assess the Global Compact and provide further guidance for its implementation as a reference instrument in the field of migration governance.

The UN General Assembly and its Member States have reaffirmed in May 2022 the centrality of the Global Compact to foster international cooperation. This momentum has highlighted the crucial need for an independent expertise with the view of providing a sound and coherent guidance on the implementation of the Compact in due accordance with international law and migrant’s rights. Building upon this important motive, the conference will provide a comprehensive analysis of the Global Compact for Migration to critically assess its development, progress and challenges.

The result of the two-day roundtables will be published by Oxford University Press in its leading book series, the Oxford Commentaries on International Law.

This conference also marks the 10th Anniversary of the Global Migration Centre, which has drawn together leading scholars to address the field of migration in its multifaceted dimensions. While our primary function is to lead policy and academic research, we also regularly organise events, expert meetings and conferences. Through these various activities, we offer a unique interface between academia, the international community and the civil society.

The distinctive features and assets of the GMC owe much to our focus on the transnational dimensions of migration and its interdisciplinary orientation in order to fully grasp the complexities of mobility in a globalised world. These contributions have taken many forms and have all been carried out in the same perspective, to dispel pre-conceived ideas surrounding migration, but also to enable debates, to inform and to train the actors in the field. This conference is thus a beacon event following the Global Migration Centres’ raison d'être whilst bringing together leading scholars to discuss one of the most significant universal instruments on migration yet.