Same Same or Different? Norm Diffusion Between Resistance, Compliance, and Localization in Post-conflict States

Zimmermann, Lisbeth

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“…International norm diffusion can be met with resistance, localisation or acceptance, while localisation describes the creation of new tasks and instruments that alter significantly the existing institutional structure, but not the normative belief system: 'Localization, not wholesale acceptance or rejection, settles most cases of normative contestation', argues Acharya (2004: 239). This has been demonstrated in cases as diverse as the spread of small arms norms in South East Asia (Capie 2008), international women's rights norms (Zwingel 2012), and civil and political rights in Guatemala (Zimmermann 2014).…”

Section: Norm Diffusion and Contestationmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The approach is concerned with the variegated mechanisms of agency involved in the processes of norm negotiation, and in the hybrid results that often follow from massive international norm promotion efforts -both of which are recurrent themes in peacebuilding literature. It is thus puzzling that so few studies have applied this literature systematically to transition contexts and peacebuilding environments where international actors are particularly involved (for exceptions, see Alldén 2009;Tholens 2012;Groß 2014;Zimmermann 2014). In the next section, we discuss equivalent frameworks of analysis in the rich field of critical peacebuilding literature.…”

Section: Norm Diffusion and Contestationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Diffusion, contestation and localisation in post-war states: 20 years of Western Balkans reconstruction

Tholens

Groß

2015

J Int Relat Dev

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This special issue explores norm diffusion, contestation and localisation in the contexts of political transition in general and post-war peacebuilding specifically. It engages with critical moments in which international diffusion endeavours meet local politics of norm contestation in societies undergoing post-war and/or post-authoritarian transitions. The 'third wave' of norm research offers an agency-based approach to the negotiation and contestation of the meaning of norms that is consistent with work in peacebuilding studies on the meeting between international norms and local realities in post-war contexts. By honing in on the 'normative powers' of local agents, their perspectives and capacities, and how these contribute to norm construction, the special issue provides theoretical and conceptual advances to capture these transition processes in the context of the Western Balkans.

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Section: Norm Diffusion and Contestationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Norm Diffusion and Contestationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diffusion, contestation and localisation in post-war states: 20 years of Western Balkans reconstruction

Tholens

Groß

2015

J Int Relat Dev

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“…This article contributes to the literature on how international norms -contested by definition -find local meaning in post-war transition contexts, following recent debates (Zimmermann 2016;Tholens and Gross 2015). It does so by critically advancing Acharya's framework of norm localisation (2004,2009), and explores the way local actors give meaning to international norms in such tense political transformation periods as after armed conflict.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Winning the post-war: norm localisation and small arms control in Kosovo and Cambodia

Tholens

2017

J Int Relat Dev

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This article asks how domestic elites contest and localise global norms in contentious post-war contexts. Engaging with critical norm research, it develops a 'two-step localisation' framework in order to explain how seemingly technical security governance programmes depend on active congruence making with constitutive state-society narratives -both by international practitioners and domestic elites. The first step consists of the adaptation that practitioners working in the field make in order to tune their message to local contexts, and the second step constitutes the locally driven processes of contestation through narrative construction. The article thus brings in deeply political negotiations over state-society narratives in order to unpack how local agents contest and reframe global norms. Applying the two-step localisation framework to a comparative case study of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Control programmes in Kosovo and Cambodia, the article illustrates how the relationship between arms and state-society narratives is key to understanding the outcome of security governance processes.

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“…Much of this literature has a technical focus on implementation modes and suggests that the slow progress of implementation is the result of the top‐down, state centric efforts and analyses (Shepherd, ). The failure of implementation is not seen on this horizontal level, but rather on the vertical level of how norms translate (Zimmermann, ; Zwingel, ), localize (Acharaya, ; Tholens & Groß, ), and are appropriated (Großklaus, ) in local contexts, that is, how local contexts influence the meanings of norms (Wiener, ). Some scholars have looked more specifically at the negotiation of norms in the postconflict space (Björkdahl, ; Björkdahl & Gusic, ; Groß, ; Tholens & Groß, ; Zimmermann, ), and these studies show that these spaces open up for substantial negotiation over the prescriptions and parameters of international global norms; it is a time where norms of the past are negotiated against envisioned norms for the future.…”

Section: The Political Psychology Of Norm Changementioning

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Narratives of Support and Resistance: A Political Psychological Analysis of the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Doeland

Skjelsbæk

2017

Political Psychology

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This article presents an analysis of norm change, and, more specifically, how gender equality norms are negotiated in Bosnia. The immediate reason for asking these questions is the adoption of the United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 in 2000 on women, peace, and security and the massive global effort to change gender equality norms in order to improve peacebuilding efforts. We argue that implementation of the United Nations' Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda rests on localization of gender equality norms. Our contention is that this process takes place on different levels. Based on a series focus-group interviews in Bosnia we offer depth to what a localization process can look like. We discuss what this means for the WPS agenda in Bosnia, for norm change, and for political psychological scholarship.

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Same Same or Different? Norm Diffusion Between Resistance, Compliance, and Localization in Post-conflict States

Cited by 57 publications

References 58 publications

Diffusion, contestation and localisation in post-war states: 20 years of Western Balkans reconstruction

Diffusion, contestation and localisation in post-war states: 20 years of Western Balkans reconstruction

Winning the post-war: norm localisation and small arms control in Kosovo and Cambodia

Narratives of Support and Resistance: A Political Psychological Analysis of the Implementation of UNSCR 1325 in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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