Workshop Chairs:

Phil Orchard, The University of Queensland, & Alexander Betts, University of Oxford
Location: Richlelieu, Fairmont
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM, Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Workshop Summary

This project focuses explicitly on the issue of norm implementation by exploring a number of norms which are widely accepted as internalized but in which there nevertheless appears to be significant forms of variation in implementation. Variation reflects the notion that there will be little contestation of the norm itself at the international or domestic level, but significant variability in the forms of implementation. This variation may occur across states at the international level either because of different interpretations of norms or individual normative elements. Or it may occur as a form of active contestation either by the state or by domestic interest groups and institutions. Thus, implementation may mark a distinctive fourth phase in Finnemore and Sikkink’s widely cited norm emergence model.

Workshop Participants (tentative)

• Phil Orchard, The University of Queensland
• Alexander Betts, University of Oxford
• Carolyn Deere Birkbeck, University of Oxford
• Brian L. Job, University of British Columbia
• Pierre Lizée, Brock University
• Phil Orchard, University of Queensland
• Emily Paddon, University of Oxford
• Michael Schroeder, George Washington University
• Catherine Weaver, University of Texas
• Jennifer Welsh, University of Oxford
• Scott Watson, University of Victoria (Canada)