PUBLICATIONS

           AAA: RÖLING (RELATED) PUBLICATIONS

           An overview of Röling’s many publications can be found in Akkerman et al (ed.) Declaration on Principles, a Quest for Universal Peace, Leyden 1977, on pp. 383-403,  prepared by Teunissen and Doeleman.

         First of all, mention should be made of The Tokyo Trial and Beyond: Reflections of a Peacemonger by B.V.A. Röling, Antonio Cassese (Editor) (1995)

on IMT TOKYO:

- Opinion of Mr. Justice Röling, member for the Netherlands. 12 November 1948 ASIN: B0007JY25I,
- Röling, B.V.A. and C.F. Ruter, eds. The Tokyo Judgment: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Amsterdam: University Press, 1977. 

 on PEACE RESEARCH AND INTERNATIONAL LAW:

- International Law in an Expanded World, Amsterdam 1960 (en eye-opener – still – for a globalizing world)
- Over Oorlog en Vrede Amsterdam 1963 (a book that made a huge impact on Dutch thinking, - and beyond)
 - Inleiding tot de Wetenschap van Oorlog en Vrede Assen 1968 (based on Röling’s immensely popular educational television programmes (Teleac)
 - Volkenrecht en vrede Deventer 1973 (a unique treatise, deserves to be updated [e.g. by Nico Schrijver, Röling’s foremost pupil who helped him updating the 2nd edition] and to be translated into the English)
 - Vredeswetenschap: Inleiding tot de polemologie (Utrecht, Aula-boeken), 1981
- Wapenbeheersing en ontwapening, 1984  

See also:
- Van den Burg et al: Vrede en oorlog: Nieuwe ontwikkelingen in de polemologie : [opstellen voor prof. mr. B. V. A. Röling] (Synopsis), 1977
- Akkerman, van Krieken and Pannenborg, Declaration on Principles, a  Quest for Universal Peace (Liber Amicorum Disciplinorumque), Leyden 1977


PROMOVENDI

LIST OF ALL THOSE WHO PREPARED AND DEFENDED THEIR PH.D (Dr. Jur) UNDER RÖLING:

1948 - 1976: to follow
20 December 1976:   Van Krieken
14 September 1978:  Pannenborg
24 January 1980:      Myjer
24 April 1980:          Meuffels


SERIE POLEMOLOGISCHE STUDIËN

This series of (mainly) monographies on peace research and related topics has Röling as its editor-in-chief. He personally oversaw to its high standards.
The series, over a period of some 15 years (1962-1977), carries almost 20 titles, under which:

(1) Berg et al., De oorlog in het licht der wetenschappen
 (2) Boasson,  Approaches to the study of international relations
 (3) Baerends et al., De oorlog in het licht der wetenschappen (2)
(4) Delfgaauw et al., Aspecten van de koude oorlog
(5) Röling et al., Opstand en revolutie
(6) Duisenberg, Economische gevolgen van ontwapening (the economic consequences of disarmament)
           [this is the same W.F. Duisenberg who later became the first president of the European Central Bank]
 (8) Röling, Polemologie: Inleiding tot de wetenschap van oorlog en vrede
(9) Lafeber, Nieuw Guinea en de Volkskrant
(12) van den Doel, Konvergentie en evolutie
(13) Spits, De metamorfose van de oorlog in de 18e en 19e eeuw
(14) Alting von Geusau, Denken over wereldvrede
(15) Tromp et al., Kritische Polemologie
 (16) Verwey Economic development, peace and international law
 (17) van Krieken, Deserteurs, dienstweigeraars en asielrecht (deserters, conscientious objectors and the law on asylum)
(18) Jochheim, Antimilitaristische Aktionstheorie, soziale Revolution und soziale Verteidigung 

Finally, mention should be made of Verwey’s excellent biography published in 1985 by the Asser Institute: W.D. Verwey, Bert V.A. Röling 1906-1985 (biografie-serie van prominente Nederlandse internationaal recht-juristen), Den Haag: T.M.C. Asser Instituut 1985.
 

BBB RÖLING FOUNDATION PUBLICATIONS 

Apart from the above mentioned Liber Amicorum Disciplinorumque, the Röling Foundation is linked to the following publications (mainly as copyright owner): 

- LIBER AKKERMAN, the in- and outlaws of war Maklu, Apeldoorn/Antwerpen 1992, (at the occasion of the first anniversary of the brutal murder of one of the founders of the Röling Foundation, Robert Jan Akkerman, a young, yet experienced diplomat, murdered by Palestinian factions in Tunis, Tunisia just before the end of the 1991 Gulf War. This LIBER, was edited by his co-board-members Pannenborg & Van Krieken. ISBN: 90-6215-322-4. 

See also the following seven titles published by Asser Press / Cambridge University Press:
http://www.asserpress.nl/   (check under public international law)
http://www.cambridge.org/us/ (check under krieken)
http://www.cambridge.org/ 

Refugee Law in Context
Edited by Peter J. van Krieken
Hardback (ISBN: 9067041181 | ISBN-13:9789067041188) 1999 

The Asylum Acquis Handbook
Edited by Peter J. van Krieken
Hardback (ISBN: 906704122X | ISBN-13:9789067041225) 2000 

Health, Migration and Return
Edited by Peter J. van Krieken
Hardback (ISBN: 9067041289 | ISBN-13:9789067041287) 2001 

The Migration Acquis Handbook
Edited by Peter J. van Krieken
Hardback (ISBN: 9067041300 | ISBN-13:9789067041300) 2001 

Terrorism and the International Legal Order
Edited by Peter J. van Krieken
Hardback (ISBN: 9067041483 | ISBN-13:9789067041485) 2002

The Consolidated Asylum and Migration Acquis
Compiled by Peter J. van Krieken
Paperback (ISBN: 9067041807 | ISBN-13:9789067041805) 2004 

The Hague - Legal Capital of the World
Edited by Peter J. van Krieken, David McKay
Hardback (ISBN: 9067041858 | ISBN-13:9789067041850) 2005
  

The Volume Terrorism and the International Legal Order has been dedicated to Röling.
As Nico Schrijver (now Professor in International Law at Leiden University) wrote:

This Volume has been dedicated to Professor Röling. Bert Röling  (1906-1985) was a judge at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and professor of international law and  peace research at Groningen University, The Netherlands. He had a special interest in the emerging international criminal law in the context of war and peace.

Since September 11, 2001 international lawyers have been giving considerable thought on how to respond to acts of international terrorism law, human rights and international law aimed at the promotion of justice.

The use of violence for politically motivated criminal acts is certainly not a new phenomenon. It was already practised in ancient times and the middle ages. Perhaps new are the widespread scale and the audacity of international terrorism as exemplified by the hijacking of aircraft, the use of extremely dangerous explosives and potential access to weapons of mass destruction.

At the early stage Röling had already identified these dangers and had sought to analyze their consequences to determine which direction international law should take to prevent such acts of violence and to promote peace and justice. Both Van Krieken and the author of this contribution, who, albeit at different times, took classes with Röling, cherished his views, teaching and his personal approach, and realized that he had been ahead of his time. Röling’s work and opinions hence continue to have a profound impact on our thinking. Antonio Cassese rightly submits in his book on and with Röling on the 1946-1948 tribunal, The Tokyo trial and beyond, reflections of a peace monger (Blackwell, 1993) that ‘although Röling authored a great number of important writings, they do not fully convey the richness, complexity and liveliness of this verbal communication’

Meanwhile, international law has developed progressively over the past decades, especially in the field of human rights, humanitarian law and international criminal law. One of the main issues now to be addressed is how the various chapters of international law can converge into one coherent and effective strategy in combating and, if possible, preventing international terrorism. This Volume brings together dozens of key documents on the international legal order. They are preceded by succinct introductions by Peter van Krieken who embodies rare combinations of extensive field experience (including close encounters with terrorists) in various hotbeds of this world (Beirut, Juba [Southern Sudan], Peshawar) and academic scholarship. As a matter of fact, Professor Röling ‘instructed’ Van Krieken, when he left for abroad to join the UN after completing his Ph.D., not to forego his academic interests.

To dedicate this Volume to Professor Röling is thus logical, commendable and indeed laudable. However, this Volume is more than just a (re)-collection: it is considered extremely useful for practitioners and academics alike who wish to acquaint themselves with the extensive emerging body of international anti-terrorism law and with the ways how international law can and ought to be employed in order to suppress and prevent international terrorism, to promote peace and justice, and to deny terrorists ‘safe havens’.