In cool mind : what international arbitration can do for the (New) World Order? : keynote address delivered by Yves Fortier on March 2, 2023 at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts

I am delighted to join you here in Cambridge, Massachusetts, today. Thank you for your invitation. Last year’s conference dealt with the “past and future of international arbitration”. It centered on the dispute resolu¬tion system writ large. This year’s focus is on a bigger and bolder picture; how can international arbitration serve the world order? This suggests an outward look. I agree that it is unnecessary to worry about arbitration’s survival or self-image in these changing times or compare it to litigation or negotiation as if only one method of resolving disputes should be available. I invite you today to explore how these three methods of dispute resolution do or can affect the world as it experiences horror after horror. Two parallels come to mind.