Brief History and Contemporary Practice of Wise Men and/or Groups of Eminent Persons Phenomena

Jan Klucka

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Brief History and Contemporary Practice of Wise Men and/or Groups of Eminent Persons Phenomena

Jan Klucka

Published in International Journal of Law and Society (Volume 5, Issue 3)

Received: 6 July 2022 Accepted: 1 August 2022 Published: 10 August 2022

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GEPs today represent the geographically wide-spread phenomenon organically linked with the existence and practice of international organizations. International organizations consider such bodies as a useful to analyse the situation of concrete organization and make recommendations to improve it mainly within the sphere of policy or legal order or moreover to formulate recommendations on any matter relating to promotion and maintenance of peace security and stability in the specific region. This contribution do not offer the exhaustive and comprehensive analysis of the phenomena of wise men and/or Groups of eminent persons, but is focusing on the analysis of the historical trends and evolution of GEPs and the comparison of current practice of international organizations to identify a set of similar and different circumstances when they decide to set up GEPs. As members of GEPs usually operate in their individual capacity and did not represent governments, GEPs role is to help to build the institutional structure and/or constituent act of international organization in one region or to strengthen the peace and stability in the other region. The aim of the contribution is to proof that the GEPs do not have asingle (ad hoc) character and are established by different ways. The establishment and functioning of GEPs has a specific historic roots which may be inspired by the centuries´ old practice in dispute and conflict resolution respecting the importance of customary traditional conflict resolution mechanism. The current practice of GEPs already shows that it exceeded the area of international organizations and is starting to be used also within the relations of international organization and third countries, within the specific interregional relations, within bilateral relations between states and even within the process of the preparation and ratification of concrete international treaties.

Published in	International Journal of Law and Society (Volume 5, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijls.20220503.16
Page(s)	284-304
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Groups of Eminent Persons, GEPs, International Organizations, Dispute Settlement, Regionalism, Panel of Wise

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