The Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT) was jointly established in 1997 by the Center on International Cooperation and the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development at University of London to address the legal, institutional, and financial issues arising from the multiplication of international courts and tribunals and other dispute settlement bodies as well as from the increased willingness of members of the international community to have recourse to them. These two factors distinguish the 1990s as a fundamental decade in the development of international justice. PICT is an unprecedented endeavor. It is the only internationally based effort to address, with a comprehensive and holistic approach, all existing international courts and tribunals. It couples academic research with concrete action aimed at facilitating the work of international courts and tribunals at developing the lawyering skills of potential actors, in particular in developing countries and economies-in-transition. It provides a permanent forum for communication and learning between the existing international courts and tribunals. To learn more about PICT visit www.pict-pcti.org.