International Non-governmental Organizations’ (INGO) Working Group Diplomacy and its Impact on the Articulation of a Protection of Civilians (PoC) Agenda
| Friday, 06 December 2024 05:00 pm – 06:00 pm JST Online (Zoom) |
featuring
Raymond Andaya
Visiting Scholar, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
PhDCandidate, University of Tokyo
Speaker’s summary:
How do INGOs inuence the processes and outcomes of a civil society working group, and what implications does this inuence have on the understanding and practice of a global civil society agenda? I address this question by focusing on the case of a Protection of Civilians (PoC) agenda. Interpersonal communication between INGO focal persons in NGO working groups serve as an e ective tool in semi-informal advocacy platforms. As a form of ‘NGO diplomacy’, it provides INGOs with the opportunity toinject speci c issues into a collective agenda. I argue, however, that despite the small size of a working group, these dynamics can lead to actors accepting a broad, collective agenda instead of a concentrated discourse on PoC.The ndingsareprimarily based on qualitative interviews with UN advocacy or PoC focal persons for INGOs that jointly signed o on the 2021 Civil Society Statement on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict.
Speaker’s Bio:
Raymond Andaya is a Visiting Scholar at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo and PhD Candidate in Human Security Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is writing his PhD on international non-governmental organizations’ (INGOs) inuence on the civil society Protection of Civilians (PoC) agenda. He has research interests in peacebuilding, transitional justice, human rights, and international organizations. His previous work has been published in the Philippine Political Science Journal and the Asian Journal of Peacebuilding.
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