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Taking the law out of the books.
One week inside a fictitious armed conflict. Around fifty teams from five continents plead, negotiate and advise — as lawyers, military officers, diplomats and humanitarian actors.
What is the Competition?
No written memorials, no frozen courtroom: the Jean-Pictet Competition is entirely oral. Teams play the actors of armed conflicts — legal advisers, ICRC delegates, military officers and diplomats, for example — in simulations built around a fictitious scenario. It teaches you to put the law into action.
Editions
Upcoming editions are announced here as soon as the Committee makes them public, and on the Competition’s channels.
The competition in numbers
Honors.
The Jean-Pictet Prize goes to the best team of each edition, since Clermont-Ferrand 1989.
50 editions on the honors list
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Over 5,000 alumni — the Picteists — across a hundred countries, reunited every year.
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