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Koomen, Jonneke. "Agency, Ideas and Change in International Politics: Women's Rights and the Rome Statute for the ICC" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70382_index.html>

Koomen, J. , 2005-03-05 "Agency, Ideas and Change in International Politics: Women's Rights and the Rome Statute for the ICC" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p70382_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Before the 1990s neither sexual violence nor women’s rights were recognized as central concerns of international institutions. International criminal tribunals rarely convicted perpetrators of mass rape, “the least condemned war crime throughout history.” In 1998, however, the adoption of the Rome Statute paved the way for the establishment of the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.), a permanent tribunal which has been hailed as “potentially a powerful instrument for protecting women's rights.” The Rome Statute expressly recognizes sexual violence as a grave breach of international law, offers mechanisms to prosecute sexual violence, and aims protect the wellbeing of victims. How did these apparently sudden advances in women's rights come about? And how meaningful are the legal and institutional developments laid out in the Statute? I suggest we view women’s human rights activism around the Statute of Rome in its full complexity: as both informed by a professional advocacy strategy embedded in a liberal rights-based discourse, and as a series of substantive, need-driven recommendations rooted in concrete experiences at the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia. I argue that, one the one hand, scholarship on transnational norms and advocacy networks provides theoretical tools to understand the “agentic” features of developments in question – namely, global activism. On the other hand, “structurally-oriented” approaches to international politics allow us to think about the very discursive frameworks (“human rights,” “international law”) and identities (“women”) that shape the conditions of possibility for human agency. Taking seriously the relationship between structure and agency, I argue that the Statute is best characterized not as a culmination of women’s activism, but as an initial stage in an on-going political struggle.

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