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JEAN‑PICTET COMPETITION

THE REFERENCE TRAINING IN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW IN ACADEMIA

The Competition

The Committee for the Jean-Pictet Competition.

The CCJP is the association that organizes the Competition. It is a not-for-profit association under French law, with no employees: everything you see of an edition is the work of its members and of the volunteers they gather.

Committee members
21
Countries
11
Honorary members
7

What the Committee does.

The Committee writes each edition’s scenario and the tests that run through it, receives and reviews the teams’ applications, chooses the host city and negotiates the arrangements, gathers some forty volunteers per edition, and runs the week from beginning to end.

Between editions it keeps the Regulations up to date, tends the alumni network, looks for the support that keeps the Competition affordable, and administers the Universality Fund.

Its members.

The Committee brings together academics, practitioners of international humanitarian law and delegates of humanitarian organizations. Nearly all of them came through the Competition — first as participants, then as volunteers.

The biographies are not carried over here: they aged faster than we updated them, and everyone is reachable elsewhere. For a question that concerns one person in particular, write to the Committee and it will be passed on.

Its members

21

Administration.

  • Christophe Lanord

    France

    Administrator since 2016

Honorary members.

The title marks those whose work shaped the Competition and who no longer sit on the Committee.

  • Michel Deyra

    France · Co-founder of the Competition and Honorary President

  • Bernard Dougherty

    United States

  • Christopher M. Rassi

    United States

  • Garth Abraham

    South Africa

  • Patrícia Galvão Teles

    Portugal

  • Sylvain Beauchamp

    Canada

  • Théo Boutruche

    France

In memoriam.

Catarina de Albuquerque, a member of the Committee from 1998 to 2025, died on 7 October 2025.

  • Catarina de Albuquerque

    Portugal

    1970–2025

The volunteers.

An edition stands on four teams of volunteers: the judges, who assess the tests; the tutors, who accompany the teams all week; the petits bras, who keep the logistics and the document distribution running; and the kitchen, which writes the tests and holds the scenario together. All of them are Competition alumni or IHL experts.

Become a volunteer →

Writing to the Committee.

A question about an application, an edition, the Picteist directory or a partnership? One address.

Contact the Committee

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