Specifying 'A Crucial Role' for Civil Society: Non-governmental Organisations, the International Criminal Court, and Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes

我的研究考察了反对与冲突有关的性暴力的国际规范的出现、制度化和演变。利用规范文献和建构主义理论，这篇定性的论文探讨了为什么国家和国际组织在20世纪90年代接受民间社会围绕这一问题的鼓动，以及禁令的制度化首先作为国际犯罪，后来作为联合国主持下的国际规范，如何影响了规范的轨迹。

My research examines the emergence, institutionalisation, and evolution of the international norm against conflict-related sexual violence. Drawing on the norms literature and constructivist theory, this qualitative, thesis examines why states and international organisations were receptive to civil society agitation around the issue in the 1990s, and how the institutionalisation of the prohibition first as an international crime and later as an international norm under UN auspices has influenced the norm's trajectory.