Transnational Advocacy against Capital Punishment: A Role for the Holy See

Ferrari, Lisa L.

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“…Another important avenue for pro-moratorium activism was religion. Especially thanks to the contribution of the CSE, a catholic NGO, and the personal contribution of Pope John Paul II, who intervened repeatedly asking for the withdrawal of capital punishment in several specific cases, the appeal to the value and dignity of human life as based on religious principles was instrumental in delivering the message of the campaign in many countries (Ferrari, 2003).…”

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Advocacy strategies for human rights: the campaign for the moratorium on the death penalty

Marchetti

2016

Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Po

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This article examines the different strategies used by transnational actors in advocacy against the death penalty. In particular, it studies the strategies adopted by the transnational campaign for the moratorium on capital punishment in view of the United Nations General Assembly vote of 2007 and subsequent years (2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014). The article shows that a variety of different strategies are used in the organizational, institutional, and communicative domains. Within the broader debate on norm diffusion, this article sheds light on the under-investigated area of specific tactics, which include horizontal networking, multilayered political lobbying, reason-based framing, and emotion-based story-telling, deployed by transnational activists to induce key actors to change their policy preference

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Section: Organizational Institutional and Communicative Strategiesmentioning

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Advocacy strategies for human rights: the campaign for the moratorium on the death penalty

Marchetti

2016

Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Po

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Terrorism as Transnational Advocacy: An Organizational and Tactical Examination

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Harrington

2006

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

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The Papal Human Rights Discourse: The Difference Pope Francis Makes

Troy¹

2019

Human Rights Quarterly

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Religious actors and their political concepts are commonly assumed to be conservative, static, and aligned with the private contemplative world. Popes, however, regularly stand out from this narrative. The article contextualizes the papal human rights discourse since the 1940s and contributes a hitherto neglected perspective to the debate on human rights and religion in the international realm, illustrating that religious ideas and configurations change. The research, partially derived using discourse network analysis software, points out three key findings: First, John Paul II dominates the human rights discourse, which has gained traction since the end of the Second World War. Second, although Francis takes an outside role in the papal discourse, he does not differ in principle from the mainstream trajectory of the papal human rights discourse. Finally, third, from the first evocation of human rights by a pope, there has been a persistent trend stressing both individual and collective human rights. Moreover, the article illustrates that political and religious conceptions of human rights are relational, and even contingent on each other. The results offer ample reason to anticipate future papal political conduct based on the trajectory of the papal human rights discourse.

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Transnational Advocacy against Capital Punishment: A Role for the Holy See

Cited by 6 publications

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Advocacy strategies for human rights: the campaign for the moratorium on the death penalty

Advocacy strategies for human rights: the campaign for the moratorium on the death penalty

Terrorism as Transnational Advocacy: An Organizational and Tactical Examination

The Papal Human Rights Discourse: The Difference Pope Francis Makes

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