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Schweizer, Natalie. "The UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ? Global Networks & Local Politics?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA, Feb 28, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p178651_index.html>

Schweizer, N. Y. , 2007-02-28 "The UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ? Global Networks & Local Politics?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p178651_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In 1985, in the wake of several initiatives inside and outside the United Nations, the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations began preparing a Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In 2006, the Draft Declaration has been discussed for more than 20 years in different UN working groups; it has attracted more than 2?000 organizations and institutions; and it has brought thousands of people from all parts of the world together at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Yet, the Draft Declaration project has repeatedly been called a failure. Indigenous Peoples? organizations, support NGOs, States, as well as the academic community have deplored the hitherto meager results of the exercise, if for different reasons. Until recently, only two articles (out of the 20 preambular paragraphs and 47 articles) have been agreed upon for adoption; indigenous organizations voiced frustration over diluted wording of an originally strong draft; and some States seem eager for ?failure? ? which would justify abandoning the drafting process and abolishing the vital forum.My paper, by contrast, argues that the drafting process has led to achievements and advances. It considers the Draft Declaration process as an exemplary site where global pressures, appearing in the formation of transnational networks involved in international standard-setting processes, exert a normative influence on international governance and local politics. I will examine how the transnational network advocating the ?indigenous cause? is constructed for and at the same time shaped by this standard-setting process, and how it relates to and influences global and local discourses.In a first step, I analyze what kind of network emerged during the Draft Declaration process at the UN, explore its structural and functional characteristics, and examine how it spread geographically, as well as across different actor categories. Secondly, I study the international pressures it created ? among others which norms were agreed upon in the network; how ?principled issues? were elaborated and promoted in and beyond the network and how these found their way into related processes of international governance, policies addressing Indigenous Peoples, international and/or national legal decisions, and NGO and activist groups? campaigns and propaganda.

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