EU-NormCon has organized the panel ‘Norm Contestation in International Organizations’ in the ISA Conference ‘Power of Rules and Rule of Power’ that took place in San Francisco (California, USA) between the 4th and the 7th of April. The panel was chaired by Esther Barbé (IBEI) and had Nina Graeger (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) as discussant.
Several scholars presented their papers in the panel, such as the IBEI researchers Robert Kissack with ‘Regional Organizations as Sites of Norm Diffusion: Norm Contestation and Consolidation in the Case of the Unga Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty’ and Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués with ‘On the Warpath? The New Norm Contestation of EU Peacebuilding’. Katie Verlin Laatikainen (Adelphi University), Carolina Pavese (PUC Minas, Brazil), Martin Welz (University of Konstanz), and Marinana Andrade e Barros (Centro Universitário UNI-BH) also participated in the panel.