Böcker i Non-State Actors in International Law, Politics and Governance Series-serien

Originally viewed with immense optimism and hailed as a panacea for overcoming violent conflict, peacebuilding today has emerged as one of the biggest development challenges facing the world. As a concept and strategy, peacebuilding has found positive resonance among INGOs and there is evidence of increasing peace building involvement of these organisations in post-conflict societies from Afghanistan to Angola, Sierra Leone to Iraq. This book explores the potential and viability of INGOs as sustainable peacebuilders, by examining and analysing the involvement of three organisations; International Alert, Conciliation Resources and World Vision in specific peacebuilding activities. On the basis of this analysis a model for effective INGO participation in the field of post-conflict peacebuilding is constructed which, if implemented, has the potential to ensure the meaningful and effective engagement of INGOs in peacebuilding activities.

Challenges the global perception and assumptions of the role played by civil society peace building operations. Framing the debate using case studies in Africa and Central America, this title examines different meanings of peace building, the practices and politics of interpreting conflict, and how planned interventions work out.

Non-state actors have always been treated with ambivalence in the works of international law. This book examines the position of non-state actors in international law as law-makers and law-takers and questions whether these different positions can or should be separated from each other.

Theoretically driven by the 'norm life cycle model' and using an interesting range of case studies; Nike, the anti-apartheid movement to name a few, this title traces the development of corporate social responsibility as an international norm, and how this norm has become an issue on the international agenda.

Describes, analyses, and evaluates the efforts of the global indigenous movement to engender changes in UN discourse and international law on indigenous peoples' rights and to bring about certain institutional developments reflective of a heightened international concern.

Provides an empirical account of organizational decision making and combines insights of organizational decision-making theory and organization theory. The central question in this book is how non-governmental humanitarian aid organizations initiate, terminate and extend their project activities.

Explains the connections between regional international governance, legitimacy and democracy. This book combines normative analysis and theory-driven empirical research in a comparative framework, focusessing on the quality of democracy and the legitimacy of policymaking in multilevel regional systems.

Addresses the topic of civil society participation in the nuclear non-proliferation regime. This book examines the question of whether civil society can contribute to the evolution of regimes in the security field, especially when it comes to security cooperation.