Gisela Hirschmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gisela Hirschmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gisela |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirschmann |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCHMANN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8262-7776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Organizational sense-making in international institutions: The International Criminal Court’s response to contestation by African states parties
Crisis management in international organisations: The League of Nations’ response to early challenges
How do international organisations (IOs) respond to existential challenges such as membership withdrawals or budget cuts?Some IOs manage to ignore the challenge or adapt to the demands of the challenging state whereas others build institutional capacities to resist the pressure.Yet, we know little about the internal dynamics that shape IOs' responses to such challenges.This article investigates to what extent IOs' threat perception determines the…
Playing with the enemy: Investigating the impact of musical peacebuilding
Musical performances are frequently used in peacebuilding initiatives. Can performing music together indeed change interpersonal and intergroup perceptions of the other as the enemy? Using contact theory for our theoretical framework, we hypothesize that the specific mechanism of listening during active music-making helps to establish the positive effects of intergroup contact. Additionally, we explore to what extent participants become peace fac…
International organizations' responses to member state contestation: From Inertia to Resilience
International organizations (IOs) play a key role in promoting multilateral cooperation on critical transnational issues. Yet, their authority has increasingly been contested by member states that cut financial contributions or even withdraw their membership. How do IOs respond to such contestation? While the existing literature has mostly focused on reactions by other member states, I argue in this article that our understanding of IOs' response…
Criminal accountability at what cost? Norm conflict, UN peace operations and the International Criminal Court
How do international organisations (IOs) balance norms that have conflicting prescriptions? In this article, we build on the literature on norm contestation and norm conflict to identify four ways in which IOs might respond to norm conflicts: (1) consistent norm prioritisation; (2) ad hoc norm prioritisation; (3) balanced norm reconciliation and (4) imbalanced norm reconciliation. How IOs are more likely to respond, we argue, depends on the salie…
Guarding the guards: Pluralist accountability for human rights violations by international organisations
Human rights violations committed by international organisations (IOs) have raised demands that IOs should be held accountable for their decisions, policies, and actions. However, traditional forms of accountability have often failed in the context of global governance. This article introduces pluralist accountability as a form of accountability whereby third parties hold IOs and their implementing partners accountable for human rights violations…
Cooperating with evil? Accountability in peace operations and the evolution of the United Nations Human Rights Due Diligence Policy
International organizations (IOs) usually cooperate with national actors in order to implement global decisions and policies. This cooperation has become problematic as implementing partners have increasingly been accused of serious human rights violations. This article analyzes how implementing partners from the host state of a United Nations (UN) peace operation are held accountable. I argue that the complexity of contemporary peacekeeping limi…
International organisations and human rights: What direct authority needs for its legitimation
Human rights violations by international organisations (IOs) are a possible side effect of their growing authority. Recent examples are the cases of sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers and violations caused by IMF austerity measures. In response, IOs increasingly develop safeguards to protect human rights from being violated through their policies to regain legitimacy. We argue that this development can be accounted for by a mechanism we call …
Notes on Chapters 7–10
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Peacebuilding in UN Peacekeeping Exit Strategies: Organized Hypocrisy and Institutional Reform
This article explores the relationship between the concept of 'organized hypocrisy' and institutional reform in UN peacekeeping. It first demonstrates how the organized hypocrisy in exit strategies arose from the discrepancy between rhetoric, peacekeeping mandates and actions in the field. The analysis then shows how, as a response to organized hypocrisy, peacebuilding replaced the election-based approach of exit strategies from the early 1990s. …
Organizational learning in United Nations’ peacekeeping exit strategies
This article illustrates how organizational learning can explain the shift in United Nations’ peacekeeping exit strategies from the election-based approach of the 1990s to peacebuilding. Conceptualizing learning as an ideal-type, three-step process, of knowledge acquisition, interpretation and institutionalization, the analysis reveals the impact of new knowledge on institutional change. It demonstrates how knowledge acquisition became systematiz…
Cooperating with evil? Accountability in peace operations and the evolution of the United Nations Human Rights Due Diligence Policy
International organizations (IOs) usually cooperate with national actors in order to implement global decisions and policies. This cooperation has become problematic as implementing partners have increasingly been accused of serious human rights violations. This article analyzes how implementing partners from the host state of a United Nations (UN) peace operation are held accountable. I argue that the complexity of contemporary peacekeeping limi…
Peacebuilding in UN Peacekeeping Exit Strategies: Organized Hypocrisy and Institutional Reform
This article explores the relationship between the concept of 'organized hypocrisy' and institutional reform in UN peacekeeping. It first demonstrates how the organized hypocrisy in exit strategies arose from the discrepancy between rhetoric, peacekeeping mandates and actions in the field. The analysis then shows how, as a response to organized hypocrisy, peacebuilding replaced the election-based approach of exit strategies from the early 1990s. …
Organizational learning in United Nations’ peacekeeping exit strategies
This article illustrates how organizational learning can explain the shift in United Nations’ peacekeeping exit strategies from the election-based approach of the 1990s to peacebuilding. Conceptualizing learning as an ideal-type, three-step process, of knowledge acquisition, interpretation and institutionalization, the analysis reveals the impact of new knowledge on institutional change. It demonstrates how knowledge acquisition became systematiz…
International organizations' responses to member state contestation: From Inertia to Resilience
International organizations (IOs) play a key role in promoting multilateral cooperation on critical transnational issues. Yet, their authority has increasingly been contested by member states that cut financial contributions or even withdraw their membership. How do IOs respond to such contestation? While the existing literature has mostly focused on reactions by other member states, I argue in this article that our understanding of IOs' response…
Criminal accountability at what cost? Norm conflict, UN peace operations and the International Criminal Court
How do international organisations (IOs) balance norms that have conflicting prescriptions? In this article, we build on the literature on norm contestation and norm conflict to identify four ways in which IOs might respond to norm conflicts: (1) consistent norm prioritisation; (2) ad hoc norm prioritisation; (3) balanced norm reconciliation and (4) imbalanced norm reconciliation. How IOs are more likely to respond, we argue, depends on the salie…
Crisis management in international organisations: The League of Nations’ response to early challenges
How do international organisations (IOs) respond to existential challenges such as membership withdrawals or budget cuts?Some IOs manage to ignore the challenge or adapt to the demands of the challenging state whereas others build institutional capacities to resist the pressure.Yet, we know little about the internal dynamics that shape IOs' responses to such challenges.This article investigates to what extent IOs' threat perception determines the…
Guarding the guards: Pluralist accountability for human rights violations by international organisations
Human rights violations committed by international organisations (IOs) have raised demands that IOs should be held accountable for their decisions, policies, and actions. However, traditional forms of accountability have often failed in the context of global governance. This article introduces pluralist accountability as a form of accountability whereby third parties hold IOs and their implementing partners accountable for human rights violations…
International organisations and human rights: What direct authority needs for its legitimation
Human rights violations by international organisations (IOs) are a possible side effect of their growing authority. Recent examples are the cases of sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers and violations caused by IMF austerity measures. In response, IOs increasingly develop safeguards to protect human rights from being violated through their policies to regain legitimacy. We argue that this development can be accounted for by a mechanism we call …
Peacebuilding in UN Peacekeeping Exit Strategies: Organized Hypocrisy and Institutional Reform
This article explores the relationship between the concept of 'organized hypocrisy' and institutional reform in UN peacekeeping. It first demonstrates how the organized hypocrisy in exit strategies arose from the discrepancy between rhetoric, peacekeeping mandates and actions in the field. The analysis then shows how, as a response to organized hypocrisy, peacebuilding replaced the election-based approach of exit strategies from the early 1990s. …
Organizational learning in United Nations’ peacekeeping exit strategies
This article illustrates how organizational learning can explain the shift in United Nations’ peacekeeping exit strategies from the election-based approach of the 1990s to peacebuilding. Conceptualizing learning as an ideal-type, three-step process, of knowledge acquisition, interpretation and institutionalization, the analysis reveals the impact of new knowledge on institutional change. It demonstrates how knowledge acquisition became systematiz…
Notes on Chapters 7–10
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
International organisations and human rights: What direct authority needs for its legitimation
Human rights violations by international organisations (IOs) are a possible side effect of their growing authority. Recent examples are the cases of sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers and violations caused by IMF austerity measures. In response, IOs increasingly develop safeguards to protect human rights from being violated through their policies to regain legitimacy. We argue that this development can be accounted for by a mechanism we call …
Guarding the guards: Pluralist accountability for human rights violations by international organisations
Human rights violations committed by international organisations (IOs) have raised demands that IOs should be held accountable for their decisions, policies, and actions. However, traditional forms of accountability have often failed in the context of global governance. This article introduces pluralist accountability as a form of accountability whereby third parties hold IOs and their implementing partners accountable for human rights violations…
Cooperating with evil? Accountability in peace operations and the evolution of the United Nations Human Rights Due Diligence Policy
International organizations (IOs) usually cooperate with national actors in order to implement global decisions and policies. This cooperation has become problematic as implementing partners have increasingly been accused of serious human rights violations. This article analyzes how implementing partners from the host state of a United Nations (UN) peace operation are held accountable. I argue that the complexity of contemporary peacekeeping limi…
Playing with the enemy: Investigating the impact of musical peacebuilding
Musical performances are frequently used in peacebuilding initiatives. Can performing music together indeed change interpersonal and intergroup perceptions of the other as the enemy? Using contact theory for our theoretical framework, we hypothesize that the specific mechanism of listening during active music-making helps to establish the positive effects of intergroup contact. Additionally, we explore to what extent participants become peace fac…
International organizations' responses to member state contestation: From Inertia to Resilience
International organizations (IOs) play a key role in promoting multilateral cooperation on critical transnational issues. Yet, their authority has increasingly been contested by member states that cut financial contributions or even withdraw their membership. How do IOs respond to such contestation? While the existing literature has mostly focused on reactions by other member states, I argue in this article that our understanding of IOs' response…
Criminal accountability at what cost? Norm conflict, UN peace operations and the International Criminal Court
How do international organisations (IOs) balance norms that have conflicting prescriptions? In this article, we build on the literature on norm contestation and norm conflict to identify four ways in which IOs might respond to norm conflicts: (1) consistent norm prioritisation; (2) ad hoc norm prioritisation; (3) balanced norm reconciliation and (4) imbalanced norm reconciliation. How IOs are more likely to respond, we argue, depends on the salie…
Crisis management in international organisations: The League of Nations’ response to early challenges
How do international organisations (IOs) respond to existential challenges such as membership withdrawals or budget cuts?Some IOs manage to ignore the challenge or adapt to the demands of the challenging state whereas others build institutional capacities to resist the pressure.Yet, we know little about the internal dynamics that shape IOs' responses to such challenges.This article investigates to what extent IOs' threat perception determines the…
Organizational sense-making in international institutions: The International Criminal Court’s response to contestation by African states parties
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (7 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works)