{"title":"Building the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the asean through Multi-Focal Norm Entrepreneurship","authors":"Ma. Lourdes Veneracion-Rallonza","doi":"10.1163/1875984X-00803005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1875984X-00803005","url":null,"abstract":"Women, Peace and Security ( WPS ) as a global agenda has gained traction since it was institutionalized in the United Nations Security Council fifteen years ago. By December 2014, 46 out of 193 Member States of the United Nations have adopted their National Action Plans to systematically implement their respective country commitments to WPS . To date, 24 of the countries with National Action Plans are in Europe while 13 are in Africa; the Asia Pacific Region has 6 and the Americas have 3. In Southeast Asia, only the Philippines has developed a National Action Plan within the framework of the WPS while other countries integrated it in the existing broad policy and programmatic frames such as addressing violence against women. At the level of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ), taking on the agenda of women, peace and security has yet to move beyond communicative rhetoric. This paper is an attempt to explore how WPS can be made part of the regional agenda on human protection and mass atrocities prevention, by mapping out discursive and institutional entry points within several ASEAN Member States and within ASEAN itself through the idea of multi-focal norm entrepreneurship.","PeriodicalId":122760,"journal":{"name":"Regionalism and Human Protection","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115389273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Southeast Asian Regionalism, Norm Promotion and Capacity Building for Human Protection: An Overview","authors":"Noel M. Morada","doi":"10.1163/1875984X-00803003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1875984X-00803003","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides an overview of how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (asean) has responded to human protection issues such as human rights, mass atrocities prevention, and civilian protection in armed conflicts. It examines the evolution and dynamics of asean's regionalism and the factors that shaped and transformed its norms. While asean has adopted the language of human security and human protection, traditional norms of sovereignty and non-interference remain sticky. The pluralist nature of asean also limits the organization from responding effectively to crisis situations within member states such as identity-based conflicts. However, there are also opportunities for continuing engagement on human protection issues with various stakeholders at the regional and domestic levels. Some asean member states are more open to mainstreaming the principle of Responsibility to Protect in the agenda of asean and recognize the importance of building the capacity of member states in preventing mass atrocities.","PeriodicalId":122760,"journal":{"name":"Regionalism and Human Protection","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126522050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}