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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aClark, Ann Marie
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDiplomacy of Conscience :
_bAmnesty International and Changing Human Rights Norms /
_cAnn Marie Clark.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2001
300 _a1 online resource (200 p.) :
_b1 halftone, 1 table
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tABBREVIATIONS --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_tChapter One. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS --
_tChapter Two. HOW NORMS GROW --
_tChapter Three. TORTURE --
_tChapter Four. DISAPPEARANCES --
_tChapter Five. EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS --
_tChapter Six. NGOs AND NORMS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS --
_tAPPENDIX. INTERVIEWS --
_tNotes --
_tBIBLIOGRAPHY --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aA small group founded Amnesty International in 1961 to translate human rights principles into action. Diplomacy of Conscience provides a rich account of how the organization pioneered a combination of popular pressure and expert knowledge to advance global human rights. To an extent unmatched by predecessors and copied by successors, Amnesty International has employed worldwide publicity campaigns based on fact-finding and moral pressure to urge governments to improve human rights practices. Less well known is Amnesty International's significant impact on international law. It has helped forge the international community's repertoire of official responses to the most severe human rights violations, supplementing moral concern with expertise and conceptual vision. Diplomacy of Conscience traces Amnesty International's efforts to strengthen both popular human rights awareness and international law against torture, disappearances, and political killings. Drawing on primary interviews and archival research, Ann Marie Clark posits that Amnesty International's strenuously cultivated objectivity gave the group political independence and allowed it to be critical of all governments violating human rights. Its capacity to investigate abuses and interpret them according to international standards helped it foster consistency and coherence in new human rights law. Generalizing from this study, Clark builds a theory of the autonomous role of nongovernmental actors in the emergence of international norms pitting moral imperatives against state sovereignty. Her work is of substantial historical and theoretical relevance to those interested in how norms take shape in international society, as well as anyone studying the increasing visibility of nongovernmental organizations on the international scene.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aHuman rights.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
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