Minister Zbigniew Rau presented the joint second prize to Kamil Kwiatkowski for his MA thesis titled Armed conflict in the territory of eastern Ukraine in the light of international law written at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and to Krzysztof Kowalski for his MA thesis on Sanctions in the US and the EU policy responses to the Ukrainian crisis in 2014–2020 written at the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the Jagiellonian University.

The third prize was awarded joint to Marcin Prokop for his MA thesis titled International protection of human rights in the context of the functioning of non-recognised countries written at the Faculty of Law and Administration at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, and to Agnieszka Wójcik for her MA thesis on Security detention of civilians in non-international armed conflicts in the views of the European Court of Human Rights written at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw.

Additionally, honorary distinctions were awarded for the following MA theses: A study on the views adopted by the UN Human Rights Committee, No. 2728/2016, in Teitiota v. New Zealand written by Szymon Kucharski at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University; Minilateral formats in the Council of the European Union written by Piotr Markowicz at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw; and Cyberattacks as the use of force as defined in the United Nations Charter written by Mateusz Słabek at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.

The first prize was not awarded in the 33rd edition of the competition.

The annual competition under the patronage of the Minister of Foreign Affairs was first organised in December 1989. Its purpose is to attract academic attention to modern-day international relations, in particular Poland’s foreign policy.

 

Łukasz Jasina

MFA Press Spokesperson

 

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