GDI Lecture: Enforcers Beyond Borders: The Growing Role of NGOs in International Law Enforcement and Effects on Wider Advocacy Movements
| Dates: | 5 March 2025 |
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| Times: | 16:30 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | Global Development Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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Speaker: Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni
NGOs have generally served as issue-entrepreneurs, advocates and service providers, leaving law enforcement to states. However, in recent decades, environmental and human rights organisations around the world have come to play a growing role in enforcing international laws, both through ‘direct action’ enforcement and through the courts. What is driving this trend? Is it a positive development? And what are the implications for wider transnational advocacy movements?
Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni is Professor in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. Her research focuses on the historical evolution, design and effectiveness of international organisations, and the role(s), both historical and contemporary, of non-state actors in global governance. Her most recent book Climate Activism, Digital Technology and Organisational Change (co-authored with Nina Hall) was published by Cambridge University Press in December 2024.
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