 In 1995, Childers co-authored a paper with his international law colleague Marjolijn Snippe called "The Agenda for Peace and the Law of the Sea", for Pacem in Maribus XXIII, the Annual Conference of the International Ocean Institute, that was held in Costa Rica, December 1995.He became Secretary General of the World Federation of United Nations Associations in March 1996.He served for only five months, and died on 25 August 1996 during the organisation's fiftieth anniversary congress.