# Speeches > Canonieke pagina: https://www.janpronk.nl/speeches.html ## English Speeches ### Recent Speeches - **Inside Gaza** — Speech at presentation documentary movie Inside Gaza. Festival Movies That Matter, Filmhuis, Den Haag. March 22, 2026. - **The never-ending Nakba and Western complicity** — Nakba commemoration, The Hague, May 15, 2025 - **50 years ago. The Carnation Revolution in Portugal** — Speech on the occasion of 50th anniversary celebrations of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. Amare studio, The Hague, 27 April 2024 - **The Right to Have Rights** — Speech at book presentation of Cees J. Hamelink, Communication and Human Rights, Cambridge 2023. Boekhandel Scheltema, Amsterdam, November 25, 2023 ### Earlier Speeches - **'Death Penalty Has No Place in the 21st Century'** — Lecture Andalas University, Padang, Indonesia, 25 September 2015 - **The Geography of Human Rights** — Yap Thiam Hien Lecture, Constitutional Court, Jakarta, 22 September 2015 - **Exploring the Dutch Empire** — Speech Book Launch 'Exploring the Dutch Empire. Agents, Networks and Institutions 1600 –2000', by Catia Antunes and Jos Gommans (ed.). Leiden University, 3 June 2015 - **An Inconvenient Relation** — Speech Seminar, International People's Tribunal 1965: Indonesia's 1965 Massacre. Unveiling the Truth, Demanding Justice. Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague, 10 April 2015 - **Post 2015: Changing Tracks** — Speech Seminar 'Development in Theory and Practice' on the occasion of the retirement of Professor Michiel Keyzer, Center for World Food Studies, Free University Amsterdam, 27 June 2014 - **Preventing Conflict Escalation. Hearts & Minds. Boots & Brains.** — Robert Milders Lecture, Central European University, Budapest, 8 May 2014 - **"If you do not remember, you do not know where to go"** — Address Memorial Ceremony 'Kwibuka 20' of the Genocide in Rwanda, April 1994. The Hague, 14 February 2014 - **Corporate Social Responsibility. Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket** — Keynote Address Conference on Global Social Responsibility, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 28 February 2013 - **Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. Don't put the cart before the horse** — Hans Singer Lecture, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 14 November 2012 - **Peacekeeping: Acting as a Good Tailor When the Need Arises** — Erskine Childers Lecture, London, 10 September 2012 - **Lost in Expectations. Social Democracy Today** — Address to Social Democracy Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 17 February 2012 - **Gacaca** — Address at the Closing of Gaca Courts Activities, Kigali, Rwanda, June 18, 2012 - **Building Blocks for a Consensus** — Conference Society for International Development (SID), Washington, July 30, 2011 - **Planet of Great Opportunities** — Kapuscinski Lecture, London School of Economics, London, 16 February 2011 - **Addressing the Defaults of Globalisation** — Silver Jubilee Eminent Persons Lecture, New Delhi, 24 March 2009 - **Laudatio Dr. Jan Breman** — Address award title Doctor Honoris Causa to Dr. Jan Breman, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 29 October 2009 - **Cities or countries?** — Speech 50th Anniversary Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Rotterdam, 8 October 2008 - **Culture and Conflict** — Geert Hofstede Lecture, Groningen, 21 May 2008 - **Do Good and Don't Look Back** — Translated from Dutch: Doe wel en zie niet om, Evert Vermeer lecture, Amsterdam, 1 February 2007 - **The Last Straw** — The Hague, 13 February 2007 - **Statement on Sudan and Darfur to the UN Security Council, October 2006** — New York, October 26 2006 - **Wisdom, Devotion and Modesty** — Speech Conference 'Cultural Emergency Response', Prince Claus Fund, The Hague, 25 September 2006 - **Statement on Sudan and Darfur to the UN Security Council, September 2006** — New York, September 18 2006 - **Statement to the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, May 2006** — Addis Ababa, May 15 2006 - **Statement on Sudan and Darfur to the UN Security Council, March 2006** — New York, March 21 2006 - **Statement on Sudan to the UN Security Council, January 2006** — New York, January 15 2006 - **We Need More Stories and More Pictures** — Address 50 Years World Press Photo, Amsterdam, October 8 2005 - **Statement on Sudan to the UN Security Council, July 2005** — New York, July 22 2005 - **Statement on Sudan to the UN Security Council, January 2005** — New York, January 11 2005 - **Statement on Darfur to the UN Security Council, November 2004** — New York, November 4 2004 - **Collateral Damage or Calculated Default?** — Inaugural Address Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, December 11 2003 - **Security and Sustainability** — Pastrana Borrero Lecture, New York, November 19 2002 - **Honorary Doctorate ISS** — Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, October 9 2002 ## Dutch Speeches ### Recent Speeches - **Hans Opschoor, in memoriam** — Den Haag, 13 mei 2026 - **Naar duurzame vrede. Tien geboden om het uitbreken van oorlog tegen te gaan plus tien geboden om, wanneer het toch oorlog is, vrede dichterbij te brengen.** — Lezing Bilthovense Kring voor Wijsbegeerte en Psychologie. Bilthoven, Woudkapel, 11 mei 2026 - **Een kantelend vergezicht. Twaalf manieren om naar de toekomst te kijken** — Toespraak Vluchtelingenkerk, Zetten, 15 februari 2026 (Verkort uitgesproken) - **Gaza. Bij de honderdste sit-in** — Rijnstraat 8, 11 december 2025 - **Michel van Hulten, in memoriam** — Eindhoven, 6 december 2025 - **Gaza. Vrede of pauze?** — Rijnstraat 8, Den Haag, 9 oktober 2025 - **Gaza Beach** — Toespraak (verkort uitgesproken) manifestatie Gaza Beach, Scheveningen/Den Haag, 24 juni 2025 - **Hoop op vrede** — Preek van de leek, Remonstrantse Kerk, Oosterbeek, 25 mei 2025 - **'Een geschenk voor het leven'** — Toespraak 4 mei Dodenherdenking, Diepenveen - **Gaza. 'Niet in onze naam'** — Rijnstraat 8, Den Haag, 20 maart 2025 - **Gaza. Een aanklacht** — Rijnstraat 8, Den Haag, 16 januari 2025 - **Gaza, een jaar later** — Rijnstraat 8, Den Haag, 10 oktober 2024 - **Gaza** — Den Haag, 29 augustus 2024 - **Jaap Akkerhuis, in memoriam** — Waddinxv