Since 1991 Dr. Sceberras Trigona has been organizing courses simulating international negotiations at the MEDITERRANEAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMATIC STUDIES, at the University of Malta.  The courses are multi-disciplinary, critically employing international law, international security, international relations, international economics and information technology.  They covered situations in Yugoslavia, Cyprus, the Western Sahara, the Middle East, Iraq, and the Euro-Med Conferences in Barcelona and Malta and Stuttgart.

Dr. Sceberras Trigona brings to the Academy both academic and practical experience.

His Law Doctorate was awarded on the basis of a seminal thesis "Constitutional change and the Maltese Constitution".  Fundamental constitutional changes in 1974 followed.  His thesis as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford on "The Anglo-Maltese Crisi 1971-1972" innovatively used a rigorous multi-disciplinary approach to international relations employing legal, political, strategic, economic analyses of international disputes.

Representation in international bodies started from student times when he was President of the Students’ Representative Council.  International representation continued well on to when he was International Secretary of the Labour League of Youth.  Later on as International Secretary of the Malta Labour Party (1977-81) he represented the Party at the Socialist International and other multilateral political bodies. .

As Foreign Minister (1981-1987) he won and managed Malta’s first elective 2 year seat at the Security Council of the United Nations (1983-1984).  He convened the first conference of Mediterranean Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers in Valletta followed by other meetings in other Mediterranean countries, focussed on setting up new structures for peace and security in this region.

He negotiated Malta’s Neutrality agreements.  These varied from purely political-juridical recognition of Neutrality, to support in the security, financial as well as economic sectors.  Corresponding Agreements were concluded with a number of states foremost amongst which were Italy and Libya, the then Soviet Union and the United States of America. .

As a Member of Parliament he shadowed Foreign Affairs in opposition (1987-92) and was elected as a Council member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union where he helped to launch the IPU’s Conference on Security and Co-operation in the Mediterranean.

As a Council Member of the International Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Co-operation he organized a major Conference of the Association in the Maltese Parliament in November 1997.

He was elected by the European Socialist group as a member of the Council of Europe’s Monitoring Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by member states for 1997-98.  There he was also appointed Rapporteur on Free Trade Agreements in Europe and beyond.

He is now co-ordinator of a "Think-tank" assessing the probable advantages and disadvantages of European Union membership for Malta.