Aiding and Abetting: Human Rights INGOs and Domestic Protest

Murdie, Amanda; Bhasin, Tavishi

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“…Also, the human rights network may condition the effect of interventions (such as "naming and shaming") meant to improve human rights practices (Keck and Sikkink, 1998;Risse and Sikkink, 1999;Murdie and Bhasin, 2011). Interventions aimed at preventing torture may be more effective when fewer violations of other rights are present, and ineffective when human rights are broadly violated.…”

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Measuring Mutual Dependence between State Repressive Actions

Fariss

Schnakenberg

2013

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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This study explores the relationships between state violations of different human rights. Though most quantitative studies in international relations treat different types of repressive behaviors as either independent or arising from the same underlying process, significant insights are gained by conceptualizing different human rights violations as separate but dependent processes. We present a theoretical framework for conceptualizing the mechanisms relating human rights practices and produce a novel measurement strategy based on network analysis for exploring these relationships. We illustrate high levels of complementarity between most human rights practices. Substitution effects, in contrast, are occasionally substantial but relatively rare. Finally, using empirically informed Monte Carlo analyses, we present predictions regarding likely sequences of rights violations resulting in extreme violations of different physical integrity rights.

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Measuring Mutual Dependence between State Repressive Actions

Fariss

Schnakenberg

2013

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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“…Furthermore, as previous research has found a significant positive relationship between violent protest and non-violent protest, we control for the occurrence of the violent protest in each model. 71 As our theory explicitly acknowledges the degree to which many outcomes and events cluster in geographic space as well as time, we control for temporal and spatial autocorrelation in all models. Our control for temporal autocorrelation is a one-year lag of the dependent variable.…”

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Taking the Fight to Them: Neighborhood Human Rights Organizations and Domestic Protest

Bell¹,

Bhasin²,

Clay³

et al. 2013

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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This article examines how human rights international non-governmental organizations (hereafter HROs) can increase the level of political protest in neighboring states. Previous research suggests local activities of HROs help to generate mobilization for protests against governments. This article shows that the presence of HROs in neighboring states can be a substitute for domestic HROs; if domestic HROs are already flourishing, there will be less of a 'neighbor' effect. At sufficiently high levels of domestic HRO prevalence within a state, neighboring HROs help domestic HROs use institutionalized substitutes for protest mobilization strategies. Spatial econometric methods are used to test the implications of this theory. These results illuminate the role that non-governmental organizations play in these domestic political processes, and demonstrate the transnational nature of their activities.

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“…In the secular arena of large donors and UN peacebuilding efforts, efforts to promote human rights and peace "have historically proceeded on separate tracks" (Sharp 2013: 195). Secular human rights scholarship tends to focus more on the role of human rights NGOs in promoting or ameliorating (armed) conflict or protests, rather than a discussion of "peace" per se (Murdie and Bhasin 2011), or focuses on negative peace between actors; for example, weighing the costs and benefits of human rights prosecution after a civil war (Anonymous 1996;Hayden 2004;Akhavan 2009). In contrast, religious organizations tend to espouse a more holistic view of "peace" that includes addressing systemic injustice and restorative processes of conflict resolution (AFSC 2012; MCC).…”

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Bridging the Gap between Human Rights and Peace: An Analysis of NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council:

Butcher

Hallward

2016

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Human rights and peace, while intricately linked in recent literature on conflict transformation and peacebuilding, have often been viewed as discrete, even competing, fields of study, with separate academic journals, disciplinary foci, and audiences. The policy and practitioner communities have often viewed human rights and conflict resolution as contradictory in the wake of conflict, as the demand for justice and accountability regarding human rights violations may prevent armed actors from joining the negotiation table or signing a peace agreement. Peace and conflict studies have increasingly turned to the concepts of "conflict transformation" and "peacebuilding" both of which integrate human rights; this paper explores whether a similar shift has occurred in human rights scholarship and practice. This paper analyzes and compares the extent to which NGOs recently affiliated with the Human Rights Council also include a concern for peace in their mission and activities. The authors conduct a content analysis of 237 organizational websites, supplemented with nine in-depth interviews, to explore the connections between human rights and peace in these organizations. The authors find that organizational characteristics, such as being religiously affiliated or located outside the West, influence group orientation toward human rights and peace.1 The co-authors contributed equally to this project and are listed in alphabetical order. A previous version of this paper was presented at the International Studies Association 2015 Conference in New Orleans, LA. The authors would like to thank Ralph Wilde and two anonymous reviewers for comments on a previous draft, as well as Joyce De-Graft Acquah and Audrey Redmond for their research assistance on this project. 2The concepts of human rights and peace are increasingly linked in the study and practice of international relations, particularly in the subfield of international peace and conflict resolution. While the concept of human rights has been incorporated into the study and practice of peacebuilding as well as into international peacekeeping operations, we find significant variance and inconsistency when studying how the concept of peace is discussed within the field of human rights. As Sharp (2013: 195) notes, the "increasingly shared space between transitional justice and post-conflict peacebuilding initiatives has sparked new interest among both scholars and policymakers in sounding out potential connections between both fields." This article begins to explore factors contributing to the varying degrees of association between peace and human rights found in human rights organizations. Specifically, we focus on three key factors that, based on the existing literature, may influence how different human rights groups connect human rights and peace: whether the organization is secular or religious, whether the organization has its origins in the West or outside the West, and whether the organization is a women's organization (either focused on women's rights or c...

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Aiding and Abetting: Human Rights INGOs and Domestic Protest

Cited by 143 publications

References 51 publications

Measuring Mutual Dependence between State Repressive Actions

Measuring Mutual Dependence between State Repressive Actions

Taking the Fight to Them: Neighborhood Human Rights Organizations and Domestic Protest

Bridging the Gap between Human Rights and Peace: An Analysis of NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council:

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