Global Compact Network:

Justice Weeramantry to speak at Sustainability Knowledge Hub

[Global Compact Network Ceylon]

The quarterly Sustainability Knowledge Hub organized by the Global Compact Network Ceylon will feature Former Vice President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Justice Christopher G Weeramantry as the keynote speaker, to be held on May 11 from 5 pm onwards at the Cat’s Eye Ballroom of the Ceylon Continental Hotel.

Global Compact Sustainability Knowledge Hub events which aim to “Drive economic growth sustainably” by equipping the Sri Lankan corporate sector with the necessary knowledge and skills required to practice corporate sustainability. The forum is organized by Global Compact Network Ceylon, the local network of the world’s largest corporate citizenship initiative, the Global Compact.

Justice C G Weeramantry, Former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice in the course of his professional career of over six decades as lawyer, legal educator, domestic judge, international judge, author and lecturer, has touched on a wide variety of topics essential to international rule of law, cross-cultural understanding and peace education. He has written over 250 articles which has been published in various international journals and is the author of over 20 books and lectured extensively on these topics and related subjects in over 50 countries.

His work contains a philosophy as well as a programme of action to achieve these purposes. The Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research (WICPER) was founded by him in 2001, has a vast corpus of research and writing as an information base from which to develop it programmes. Justice Weeramantry received the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education 2006, the Right Livelihood (Alternative Nobel) Award 2007 and the Life-Time Achievement Award 2008 by Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. These were bestowed upon him in recognition of his unstinted commitment and concrete undertakings in support of the concept and culture of peace through his long and fruitful career and the continuing efforts through the work of WICPER.

Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research (WICPER) is an organization which has pioneered a number of sustainable development programmes at international, regional and local levels. WICPER, Justice Weeramantry’s foundation in Sri Lanka is considered an official civil society member of UNGC since February 2011. The forum is open for senior management, sustainability champions, the corporate and the public sector.

The Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.

Global Compact today stands as the largest corporate citizenship and sustainability initiative in the world, with over 8700 corporate participants and stakeholders from over 130 countries.