Sökning: "norm entrepreneurs"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden norm entrepreneurs.
1. Norm Acceptance in the International Community : A study of disaster risk reduction and climate-induced migration
Sammanfattning : Different kinds of normative claims and statements of “oughtness” infuse the international political environment. But why do some proposed norms become accepted by the international community while others do not? This thesis investigates this central question using two normatively charged international issues as vehicles for explanation. LÄS MER
2. From Idea to Norm : Promoting Conflict Prevention
Sammanfattning : This study is concerned with tracing the process of how conflict prevention is moving from the realm of ideas to the field of action. Why is it that, despite historical as well as recent evidence of the infeasibility to prevent wars, the idea of conflict prevention has resurfaced to meet the challenge of the new wars of the post-Cold War era? The study investigates whether the growing interest in preventing the outbreak of violent conflicts marks the coming of age of conflict prevention as an international norm able to induce preventive practices. LÄS MER
3. How do international norms travel? : Women’s political rights in Cambodia and Timor-Leste
Sammanfattning : How do international norms travel, via statebuilding efforts, into post-conflict settings, and how do international and national actors interact in this process? These are the main questions addressed in this thesis. The empirical focus is the spreading and rooting of the norm of women’s political rights in Cambodia and Timor-Leste, two countries in which international actors have played a significant role in statebuilding efforts. LÄS MER
4. THE INITIATION OF A NORM FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH. Rwanda’s Gacaca, Pioneering the “Traditional” Transitional Justice Norm
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the pre-emergence phase of an internationalized norm by focusing on Rwanda’s creation of Gacaca. It argues that the Gacaca pioneered the “traditional” transitional justice norm. LÄS MER
5. The Europeanisation of gender equality : The unexpected case of Sweden
Sammanfattning : The main objective of this thesis is to analyse how the Swedish Equal Op-portunities Ombudsman (JämO) has used EU legislation as an opportunity for influencing the domestic policy process. Prior to Sweden’s membership in the EU, few pay-discrimination cases had been referred to the Labour Court, and none by JämO. LÄS MER
