Norms and normative change in world politics: an analysis of land rights and the Sustainable Development Goals. Issue 3 (1st September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shawki, Noha
• Is Part Of: Global change, peace & security. Volume 28:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 249
• Page End: 269
• Publication Date: 2016-09-01
• Subjects: International norms -- norm change -- land rights -- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Security, International -- Periodicals; World politics -- 1989- -- Periodicals; Peaceful change (International relations) -- Periodicals; 327.1
• DOI: 10.1080/14781158.2016.1196659
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1478-1158

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The Millennium Development Goals guided international poverty reduction efforts from 2000 until 2015 and they will be succeeded by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which will be guided by a new set of goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is argued here that since the process of formulating SDGs, targets, and indicators for their implementation brought together actors with different (and sometimes competing) issue frames, values, and agendas for discussions that clarify the content of norms and their scope, this process can bring about norm contestation and norm change. This article uses an issue that was raised in the context of the SDGs – land rights – to illustrate processes of international norm contestation, evolution, and change. In doing so, it contributes to the growing body of literature that views norms and their content and boundaries as dynamic.