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Providing an overview of institutional developments and innovations
in human rights politics, this volume discusses some of the most
important current and emerging human rights issues. It takes stock
of the initiatives, policy responses and innovations of past years
to identify some of the challenges that will likely require bold
and innovative solutions. The contributors focus on actors and/or
issues that are outside the mainstream of international human
rights politics; the chapters address issues that have only emerged
as an important part of the international human rights agenda and
generated much advocacy, diplomacy and negotiations since the end
of the Cold War. These issues include: the International Criminal
Court, the norm of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), the
proliferation of small arms and light weapons and its human rights
impact, truth commissions, and the rights of persons with
disabilities. The contributions offer a direct challenge to
entrenched notions of state sovereignty and represent a departure
from established ways of policy making.
The crisis of forced displacement is compounded by the
politicization of asylum and refugee protection, which have become
polarizing issues in many countries in Europe and in the United
States. It has animated efforts by pro-refugee civil society groups
to engage in advocacy efforts that respond to the securitization of
the issue, reframe it as a human rights and humanitarian issue, and
bring about policies that are favorable to refugee protection. The
contrasting points of view surrounding refugee and asylum policy
reveal a fundamental normative difference in what is considered the
most appropriate standard of behavior to guide actions and policies
in the wake of the European refugee crisis. This normative
difference, and the contestation that it entails, represents the
starting point for this study of specific strategies of norm-based
change. The study focuses on civil society organizations (CSOs) and
the deliberate ways they incorporate and use norms in framing and
responding to the issue of refugee protection. It seeks to
understand and explain how and why pro-refugee advocacy groups
choose to use specific norm-based strategies of advocacy in their
effort to shift public opinion on the issues of asylum and refugee
protection and ultimately bring about policy change.
This book is an edited volume that focuses on international norms
and normative change in some of the key areas of sustainable human
development. This is an important and timely topic since the
international community adopted a set of Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) in September of 2015. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development will guide international development efforts over the
next fifteen years. For this reason, developing a deeper
understanding of the SDGs, the international norms that underpin
them, and any normative change they represent is vital for
students, scholars, and development practitioners and
professionals. This volume is designed to provide an account of
some of the normative debates and normative change that the process
of developing a set of SDGs has entailed. Its goal is to assess the
origins, nature, extent, and implications of normative change in
the context of the post-2015 development agenda. It also evaluates
the extent to which the SDGs represent a significant change from
established development norms and practices.
This book is an edited volume that focuses on international norms
and normative change in some of the key areas of sustainable human
development. This is an important and timely topic since the
international community adopted a set of Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) in September of 2015. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development will guide international development efforts over the
next fifteen years. For this reason, developing a deeper
understanding of the SDGs, the international norms that underpin
them, and any normative change they represent is vital for
students, scholars, and development practitioners and
professionals. This volume is designed to provide an account of
some of the normative debates and normative change that the process
of developing a set of SDGs has entailed. Its goal is to assess the
origins, nature, extent, and implications of normative change in
the context of the post-2015 development agenda. It also evaluates
the extent to which the SDGs represent a significant change from
established development norms and practices.
This book takes the reader into a thorny world of political
dysfunction. The contributions to State of Corruption, State of
Chaos speak to some of the most potent security threats facing us
in the twenty-first century, and examine the degree to which our
inability or unwillingness to curb the spread of political
corruption may be responsible. Within this volume are unique
contributions to the rich and growing literature on corruption and
conflict, addressing a variety of issues germane to both domestic
affairs and international relations. They each seek to dissect the
often convoluted and contestable connections between corruption and
conflict. Joining the quest to develop a coherent research
programme, contributors undertake to explore social and political
implications for various policy-making levels. The edited volume
will serve as a particularly useful reference for practitioners, as
well as for professors and students of public administration and
public policy, international relations, international law,
comparative politics, security studies, and conflict resolution.
Political corruption and armed conflict touches nearly every aspect
of our lives, and so the pursuit of a healthier society, state, and
international community requires being informed about theoretical
and empirical bases of these current challenges.
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