The Boomerang Pattern

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Bibliographic Data

ID11219284
AuthorsDavid Bassano (corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume39
Issue1
Pages23-48
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePeace & Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0149-0508 • E-ISSN: 1468-0130
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/pech.12051
OpenAlexW2141251276
LanguageEN
Citations received8

When Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink published Activists Beyond Borders in 1998, they offered the emergent field of human rights history the first clear model of the relatively new phenomenon of international human rights activism. Termed the Boomerang Pattern, the model demonstrates how NGO s of the (predominantly) Third World work with international NGO s to address human rights violations in their own countries. A document from the archival collection of Amnesty International USA , created in the 1980s but only available to the public since 2007, verifies the accuracy of the Boomerang Pattern in describing transnational human rights activism. However, the Boomerang Pattern primarily describes how activism is designed to work, rather than present the complications and difficulties that NGO s encounter in their international campaigns. This article complicates the Boomerang Pattern in order to more accurately describe transnational human rights activism by drawing on examples from the N icaraguan and S alvadoran human rights movements of the 1980s

Amnesty · Epistemology · Human rights · Phenomenon · Political science · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Political Conflict and Governance

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