On October 12, Executive Director Ted van Baarda took part, as an invited speaker, in an informal network consultation on the topic "Toward a new Hague Peace Conference 2025". It was organized by the Earth Trusteeship Working Group (ETWG). The title of the network consultation alludes to the two Hague Peace conferences of 1899 and 1907, which, among other points, resulted in the Hague Rules of Land Warfare. At the time, a third Hague Peace conference proved to be elusive: it was planned for 1915, but by that time the First World War had commenced.
The meeting took place in a building across the street from the Peace Palace and it was attended by approximately seventy persons, the majority of whom represented NGOs of the peace movement and/or the environmentalist movement. The organisers of the meeting highlighted the fact that these NGOs ‘converge around care for Mother Earth and EcoPeace. An EcoPeace scenario would include massive ecosystem restoration, conversions to regenerative agriculture- and food systems, transition of cities, and a solidarity economy rooted in the commons spirit rather than "economic growth" without common purpose.’ In his presentation, Ted van Baarda sketched the conceptual back ground of the famous Martens clause.