Rethinking Methods of Investigation

Home , James Worrall, Jane Freedman, Sciences Po

1 Table of Contents

Program Overview 3

Map 4

Workshop Program 5

Public Conferences 8

Conference Contributors 9

Organising Committee 11

List of Participants 12

Sponsors 14

2 Program Overview

MONDAY 18TH JUNE 2018 TUESDAY 19TH JUNE 2018

From 05.00pm Registration 06:00pm-08:00pm Conference Plenary 2 – Investigating Uni Mail M2150 IOs: Taming Time Uni Mail MS150 06:00pm-06:30pm Opening and Welcome Speech Uni Mail MS150 From 08:30pm Private Reception Rector of the University of Geneva Michael Møller, Director of the United Nations Office in Geneva WEDNESDAY 20TH JUNE 2018 06:30 pm-08:00pm Conference Plenary 1 – Investigating IOs: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries 09:00am-10:30am Panel W1A: Combining Methods Uni Mail MS150 (M2130) Panel W1B: Research through and with Database (M2140)

TUESDAY 19TH JUNE 2018 10:30am-11.00am Coffee break (M2150)

From 08.00am Registration 11:00am-12:30pm Panel W2A: Methods to Study Uni Mail M2150 Practices (M2130) Panel W2B: Studying IO and IO 09:00am-10:30am Panel T1A: Comparison Data Production (M2140) and Bureaucracies (M2130) Panel T1B: States and the Study 12:30pm-02:00pm Lunch Break (M2150) of IOs (M2140) 02:00pm-03:30pm Panel W3A: Addressing Time 10:30am-11.00am Coffee break (M2150) and Space in the Study of IOs (M2130) 11:00am-12:30pm Panel T2A: Researching UN Staff: Panel W3B: Network Analyses Methodological Insights (M2130) and Process Tracing (M2140) Panel T2B: IOs’ History and Archives (M2140) 03:30pm-04:00pm Coffee break (M2150)

12:30pm-02:00pm Lunch Break (M2150) 04:00pm-05:30pm Wrap-up and Conclusion: Gaps and Silences (M2130) 02:00pm-03:30pm Panel T3A: Studying IOs through Staff Biographies and Discourses (M2130) Panel T3B: Text Analysis and IO Publications (M2140)

03:30pm-04:00pm Coffee break (M2150)

04:00pm-05:30pm Panel T4A: IO Ethnography and Gender (M2130) Panel T4B: IOs through their Discourses and Knowledge Production (M2140)

3 Map

Workshop and Conference Venue University of Geneva Bd Pont d’Arve 40 1205 Genève Access: From the train station, tram 15 towards “Palettes”, stop “Uni Mail”

Private Reception Venue Cité du Temps Private Reception Pont de la Machine 1 Venue 1204 Genève Access: From the University, take tram 18 at “Pont d’Arve” towards “CERN” and drop off at “Bel-Air” then 2 minutes walk.

Workshop and Conference Venue

4 Workshop Program

TUESDAY 19TH JUNE 2018

09:00-10:30 “Capturing UN staff through the concept of ecosystem” Fanny Badache (UNIL), Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon) T1A: Comparison and Bureaucracies (M2130) Chair : Fanny Badache (UNIL) “Negotiating methods and navigating positions: between Discussant : Mélanie Albaret (Université de Clermont- expertise and research on UNESCO heritage policies” Ferrand / Centre Michel de L’Hospital) Chiara Bortolotto (EHESS), Kristin Kuutma (University of Tartu)

“Researching International Organizations – A review of data sources and related methodological challenges.” T2B: IOs’ History and Archives (M2140) Jörn Ege (Speyer University/University of Exeter), Steffen Chair : Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI) Eckhard (LMU Munich), Vytautas Jankauskas Discussant : Sandrine Kott (UNIGE) (LMU Munich), Ronny Patz (LMU Munich) “Inside UNESCO World Heritage: “Squaring the Triangle: Methodological Problems of Stu- Ethnography and archives” dying the International Organisations of the Middle East” Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute for Social James Worrall (University of Leeds) Anthropology), Aurélie Elisa Gfeller (Graduate Institute)

“Defining minorities: Actors and Practices T1B: States and the Study of IOs (M2140) in the League of Nations” Chair : Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon) Roser Cusso (Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne) Discussant : Sandra Lavenex (UNIGE) “Researching international supervision of rights: Traf- “International Organizations and Law ficking between field and archive, present and past” Without the State” Jane K. Cowan (Sussex University), Lorenzo Gasbarri (UCL) Julie Billaud (Sussex University)

“Virtues and limits of a “carnal sociology” of a United Nations committee” 02:00-03:30 Julie Patarin-Jossec (University of Bordeaux) T3A: Studying IOs through Staff Biographies “State Centrism and the Ethnography of the United Nations” and Discourses (M2130) Ronald Niezen (Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society Chair : Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon) and Public Policy, Faculty of Law and Department Discussant : Bob Reinalda (Radboud University) of Anthropology, McGill University) “Reintroducing international organizations in their social spaces. Propositions for using social trajecto- 11:00-12:30 ries of individuals as a methodological approach” Valentin Thomas (IRISSO – Université Paris-Dauphine) T2A: Researching UN Staff: Methodological Quentin Deforge (IRISSO – Université Paris-Dauphine) Insights (M2130) Chair : Leah Kimber (UNIGE) “Analysing Biographies As Social Spaces: Discussant : Thomas Weiss (CUNY) A New Approach in the Study of International Organizations and the Governance of Money” “Who governs the international? Aykiz Dogan (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), The merits of studying IO professionals” Frédéric Lebaron (ENS Paris-Saclay) Monique Beerli (UC Berkeley & CERI), Clara Egger (Graduate Institute)

5 “Questioning the relevance of semi-directive “Studying IOs ‘at a distance’: interviews in researching the UN” the case of the World Bank” Mélanie Albaret (Université Clermont Auvergne, Romain Felli (UNIL), Amal Tawfik (UNIL), Centre de recherche Michel de l'Hospital), Nicolas Baya Laffite (UNIL) Joan Deas (Sciences Po Grenoble) “Digital Participation Index for International Organizations” T3B: Text Analysis and IO Publications (M2140) Jérôme Duberry (UNIGE) Chair : Leah Kimber (UNIGE) Discussant : Romain Felli (UNIL)

“Local actors and organizational capacity-building in the text” WEDNESDAY 20TH JUNE 2018 Michelle Reddy (Stanford University) 09:00-10:30 “The Best of Both Worlds? Combining Quantitative and Historical Methods in the Study of International W1A: Combining Methods (M2130) Organisations” Chair : Emilie Dairon (Sciences Po Lyon) Ellen Ravndal (The Australian National University) Discussant : Christian Bueger (Cardiff University)

“Combining corpus linguistics and archival research “Researching the UN qualitatively: methods to analyse International Labour Organisa- From exploration to explanation” tion (ILO) Annual Bulletins, 1919-2014” Janne Mende (University of Kassel) Evan Easton-Calabria (Oxford University), William Allen (Oxford University) “Seeing through International Organisations. A historical sociology of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” 04:00-05:30 Kari de Pryck (UNIGE, Sciences Po Paris)

T4A: IO Ethnography and Gender (M2130) “Methodological lessons from a system-wide Chair : Fanny Badache (UNIL) research of the United Nations: the United Nations Discussant : Irène Bellier (CNRS) Country Team in Mozambique and Vietnam” Luciana de Rezende Campos Oliveir “Researching gender equality policies in an international or- (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais/ PUC-Minas) ganisation: the (dis)advantages of participant observation” Jane Freedman (Université Paris 8) W1B: Research through and with Database “Researching from below: (M2140) Feminist field research and the “local turn” Chair : Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI) Carrie Reiling (Pomona College) Discussant : Simon Hug (UNIGE)

“Transforming national status into a heuristic standpoint: “Rethinking legislative behaviour in the UNGA : underdoing localized participative observation in the sponsorship as a country-profiling tool” International Organization for Migration (IOM)” Pedro Seabra (Center for International Studies, Sabine Dini (ERASME/CERAL Université Paris 13, University Institute of Lisbon (CEI-IUL); Sorbonne-Paris-Cité) and German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)), Rafael Mesquita (UFPE/GIGA)

T4B: IOs through their Discourses “Representation and accountability in international and Knowledge Production (M2140) organisations: Studying UN leadership using a data- Chair : Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI) set of personal characteristics and length of tenure” Discussant : Franck Petiteville (Sciences Po Grenoble) Magnus Lundgren (Stockholm University), Kseniya Oksamytna (King’s College London) “Dynamic elements of a common international lifewor- ld and salient social identities: Quantitative and qualita- “Corpus-driven Analysis of Debates in International tive discourse analysis of the UNGA General Debates” Organizations: Improving the Workflow” Catherine Hecht (Vienna School of International Studies), Paul Kohlenberg (SWP Berlin), Stephen Aris (ETH Zürich) Mor Mitrani (Bar-Ilan University)

6 11:00-12:30 W3B: Network Analyses and Process Tracing (M2140) W2A: Methods to Study Practices (M2130) Chair : Fanny Badache (UNIL) Chair : Leah Kimber (UNIGE) Discussant : Tommaso Venturini (ENS Lyon) Discussant : Mathilde Bourrier (UNIGE) “Network governance and International Organiza- “Praxiography, action research tions: Lessons from World Bank Trust Funds.” and the many faces of multilateralism” Simone Dietrich (University of Geneva), Christian Bueger (Cardiff University) Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Cambridge), Martin Steinwand (University of Essex) “How do humanitarian IOs conceptualise the world? An interdisciplinary approach to the analysis “Social network analysis of sponsorship patterns at of concepts used in humanitarian action” the UN Human Rights Council” Clara Egger (Graduate Institute), Doris Schopper (UNIGE) Anne-Luise Chané (KU Leuven)

“Studying UNHCR in Ecuador in a closure context: “The Nexus Between the World Trade Organizations the interest of combining institutional and benefi- and Codex Alimentarius” ciary interviews inside and outside the organization” Sebastian Klotz (University of Bern) Lucie Laplace (Université Lyon 2)

04:00-05:30 W2B: Studying IO and IO Data Production over time (M2140) Wrap-up: Gaps and Silences Chair : Fanny Badache (UNIL) Speakers : Fanny Badache (UNIL), Emilie Dairon (Sciences Discussant : Dorota Dakowska (Université Lyon 2) Po Lyon), Leah Kimber (UNIGE), Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI) “The Issue of Time: An Evolutionary Approach to International Organization” Open discussion on neglected methods, gaps Bob Reinalda (Radboud University) and overlooked data

“Applying the Sociology of Quantification to Inter- national Organizations: A Study Using Statistics of the International Labour Organization (1919–1939)” Laure Piguet (UNIGE)

02:00-03:30

W3A: Addressing Time and Space in the Study of IOs (M2130) Chair : Mathilde Bourrier (UNIGE) Discussant : Birgit Müller (CNRS)

“International Organizations in Time and Space: The United Nations as a Hyperspace” Leah Kimber (UNIGE), Lucile Maertens (UNIL, Sciences Po/CERI)

“The long-term ethnographic study of international organizations and their environment: Insights on the role of time and space from a project on global health governance” Julian Eckl (Universität Hamburg)

“Researching spatial practices at the United Nations: reflections from the Forum on Minority Issues” Fiona McConnell (University of Oxford)

7 GENEVA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH RESEARCHING THE UNITED NATIONS AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS 2018 Rethinking methods of investigation 18-19-20 June University of Geneva – Uni Mail

Public conferences on RETHINKING METHODS OF INVESTIGATION Opening speech by Michael MØLLER (Director General, UNOG)

MONDAY 18 Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries chaired by Sandra LAVENEX with - Laëtitia ATLANI-DUAULT - Nico KRISCH - Birgit MÜLLER - Davide RODOGNO TUESDAY 19 Taming Time chaired by Mathilde BOURRIER www.unige.ch/run2018 with - Irène BELLIER - Sandrine KOTT - Ronald NIEZEN Institut d'études politiques, - Bob REINALDA historiques et internationales - Thomas WEISS (IEPHI)

18h00 Auditorium MS150

With the support of the Commission administrative du rectorat UNIGE, the Fonds général de l’Université de Genève, the Société Académique de Genève.

Affiche A2-final final final.indd 1 31.05.18 18:23 Conference Contributors

Laëtitia Atlani-Duault is Visiting Professor at Columbia University, and Research Professor (Directeur de recherche), Institut de recherche pour le développement, in Social An- thropology in Paris. She is the Director of the Humanitarian Studies Platform at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Her research focus is the critical anthropology of humanitarian aid and she is the recipient of a prestigious Research Award awarded by France’s National Centre for Irène Bellier obtained a degree from l’Institut d’Etudes Po- Scientific Research (CNRS) litiques de Paris (1976) and her doctorate in ethnology and social anthropology at the EHESS in 1986. She became vice-president of GITPA (Groupe International de travail pour les Peuples Autochtones – International group work for In- digenous Peoples). Since 2010, she is Director of IIAC/LAIOS and leads the research project funded by the European Coun- sel for Research «Scale of Governance: the UN, the States Mathilde Bourrier is Professor of Sociology at the Univer- and Indigenous Peoples: issues and meanings of self-determi- sity of Geneva, Switzerland. She is the author of three books nation at the time of globalization» (2010-2015). and has published numerous articles in international jour- nals. Her research, publications and advisory activities deal with the social construction of safety, safety management and organizational reliability in medical, nuclear and other technological risk sectors. In recent years she has tackled the issues of International Organizations in times of crises (i.e. H1N1, Ebola) Nico Krisch is Professor of international law and co-director of the Global Governance Centre at the Graduate Ins- titute for International and Development Studies. His main research interests concern the legal structure of international organizations and global governance, the politics of international law, and the postnational legal order emerging at the intersection of domestic, transnational and international law. His 2010 book, Beyond Constitutionalism: The Sandrine Kott is Professor of European contemporary Pluralist Structure of Postnational Law received the Certifi- history at the University of Geneva since 2004. She has cate of Merit of the American Society of International Law. studied History in Paris (PhD in 1990, habilitation in 2001), the University of Bielefeld, (FRG), and Columbia (New- York). Her principal fields of expertise are the history of social welfare and labor law in France and Germany. She has developed the transnational and global dimensions of each of her fields of expertise in utilizing the archives and resources of international organizations and particularly Sandra Lavenex is Professor of European and Internatio- the International Labor Organization. nal Politics at the University of Geneva and vice-Dean of the School of Social Sciences. She is also regular Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. Her research focuses on EU asylum and migration policies and the diffusion of EU norms and practices to third countries and international organizations. Her more recent projects compare regional migration/asylum governance initiatives worldwide and analyse the nexus between trade and migration policies, with a focus on economic agreements. In addition, she works on the diffusion of democratic standards in international governance.

9 Birgit Müller obtained a PhD from Cambridge for her thesis on the Collective Alternative, an anthropology of alternative movements in West Germany. She taught at the Institute of Ethnology of the Free University of Berlin. In 1994 she joined the CNRS and has been a member of the LAIOS since its creation in 1995. In 1999 she returned to Paris where she cooperates with several national and international research networks: ACI Measures of Glo- balisation, 5th PCRDT Cultural Patterns of European Enlargement, PRATO. Birgit Müller initiated and currently coordinates the EASA Network for the Anthropology of International Governance

Ronald Niezen holds the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Ci- vil Society and Public Policy in the faculties of Law and of Arts, a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Anthropology of Law, and is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. He researches and teaches in the areas of political and legal anthropology, indigenous peoples and human rights. He is an anthropologist with wide ranging research experience: with the Songhay of Mali, the Cree communities of Quebec, Ontario and Mani- toba, and the Sami of northern Europe.

Bob Reinalda is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Political Science, Nijmegen School of Mana- gement at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has written extensively about the history of social movements, non-governmental organizations, autonomous policy making by, decision making within and implementation by intergovernmental organizations, and the Bologna Process.

Davide Rodogno is full professor since 2014 at the Gra- duate Institute, and serves as head of the International His- tory Department. He researches the history of philanthro- pic foundations, and international public health since the nineteenth century. In 2011 Rodogno published Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Em- pire (1815-1914), the Birth of a Concept and International Practice (Princeton University Press). During the summer of 2012 the Kofi Annan Foundation mandated Rodogno to write a report documenting the experience of the United Nations and League of Arab States Joint Special Envoy for Syria. Thomas G. Weiss is a distinguished scholar of international relations and global governance with special expertise in the politics of the United Nations. He was named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for a project exploring the concept of a world without the United Nations. Since 1998, he has been Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is Director Emeritus of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. He is "one of the leading experts on the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention", and is reco- gnized as an authority on international organizations and the UN system.

10 Organizing Committee

Fanny Badache is a teaching assistant and PhD candidate at the University of Lausanne. Her research deals with the issue of diversity and representativeness in the international civil service. She holds a Master in Public Management (2015) and a Bachelor in International Relations (2012) from the University of Geneva. She has been gaining knowledge on international organizations for several years thanks to several professional experiences in the United Nations and NGOs in Geneva and Sierra Leone.

Emilie Dairon is a teaching assistant and PhD candidate at Sciences Po Lyon. She graduated with a Master’s Degree in History from the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Dé- fense in 2003, and a Master’s degree from Sciences Po Paris, in 2005. She then continued her studies at the University of Paris II – Panthéon-Assas, to complete a Master’s degree in International Administration in 2006. After working for 8 years for different international organizations in Geneva she began a PhD research in 2014 focusing on the use of knowledge and skills of the UN staff.

Leah R. Kimber is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Geneva since 2013. Her research tackles the role of civil society in United Nations contexts. After having completed a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at the University of Geneva she obtained a Master’s degree in Pu- blic Health, specialized in Disaster Management at Tel Aviv University, Israel. In 2017 the Swiss National Science Foun- dation awarded her a grant allowing her to complete her dissertation as visiting scholar at the University of Columbia and CUNY, in New York in 2018-2019.

Lucile Maertens holds a position of lecturer in international relations at the University of Lausanne. She is also a research fellow at Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS, where she co-supervises a research seminar on environment and international relations. In 2015, she obtained her PhD from Sciences Po and the University of Geneva for her work on the securitization of the environment at the United Nations. She was a visiting fellow at King’s College London in 2016 and at Columbia University in 2017. Her research focuses on international organizations’ action at the intersection between security and environmental issues. She recently started a new project on the work of the United Nations in Haiti.

11 List of Participants (by alphabetical order)

Albaret, Mélanie – Université Clermont Auvergne, Deas, Joan – Sciences Po Grenoble Centre de recherche Michel de l'Hospital [email protected] [email protected] Deforge, Quentin – Irisso, Paris-Dauphine University Allen, William – University of Oxford and IRMC – [email protected] [email protected] De Pryck, Kari – Sciences Po Paris, UNIGE Aris, Stephen – ETH Zurich –[email protected] [email protected]

Atlani-Duault, Laetitia – Institut de Recherche De Rezende Campos Oliveira, Luciana pour la Développement & Fondation Maison Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais / PUC-Minas des Sciences de l’Homme – [email protected] [email protected]

Badache, Fanny – University of Lausanne Dietrich, Simone – University of Geneva [email protected] [email protected]

Baya-Lafitte, Nicolas – University of Lausanne Dini, Sabine – Université Paris 13 – [email protected] [email protected] Dogan, Aykiz – Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Beerli, Monique – UC Berkeley & CERI [email protected] [email protected] Duberry, Jérôme – Graduate Institute Bellier, Irène - CNRS – [email protected] [email protected]

Billaud, Julie – Sussex University Ege, Jörn – German University of Administrative Sciences [email protected] Speyer & University of Exeter – [email protected]

Bourrier, Mathilde – University of Geneva Egger, Clara – Graduate Institute [email protected] [email protected]

Bortolotto, Chiara – EHESS – [email protected] Eckl, Julian – Universität Hamburg [email protected] Brumann, Christoph – Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology – [email protected] Felli, Romain – University of Lausanne – [email protected]

Bueger, Christian – Cardiff University Freedman, Jane – Université Paris 8 [email protected] [email protected]

Chané, Anna-Luise – KU Leuven Gfeller, Aurélie – Graduate Institute [email protected] [email protected]

Cowan, Jane K. – Sussex University – [email protected] Gasbarri, Lorenzo – University College London [email protected] Cusso, Roser – Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne [email protected] Hecht, Catherine – Vienna School of International Studies – [email protected] Dairon, Emilie – Sciences Po Lyon [email protected] Hug, Simon – University of Geneva – [email protected]

Dakowska, Dorota – Université Lyon 2 Jankauskas, Vytautas – LMU [email protected] [email protected]

12 Kimber, Leah R. – University of Geneva Ravndal, Ellen – The Australian National University [email protected] [email protected]

Krisch, Nico – Graduate Institute Reddy, Michelle – Stanford University [email protected] [email protected]

Klotz, Sebastian – World Trade Institute, Universität Bern Reinalda, Bob – Radboud University Nijmegen [email protected] [email protected]

Kohlenberg, Paul – German Institute for International Reinsberg, Bernhard – University of Cambridge and Security Affairs – [email protected] [email protected]

Kott, Sandrine – UNIGE – [email protected] Reiling, Carrie – Carnegie 8 – [email protected]

Kuutma, Kristin – University of Tartu – [email protected] Rodogno, Davide – The Graduate Institute [email protected] Laplace, Lucie – Unviersité Lyon 2 – [email protected] Schopper, Doris – University of Geneva Lavenex, Sandra – UNIGE – [email protected] [email protected]

Lebaron, Frédéric – ENS Paris-Saclay – [email protected] Steinwand, Martin – University of Essex [email protected] Maertens, Lucile – University of Lausanne et Sciences Po Paris – [email protected] Tawfik, Amal – University of Lausanne [email protected] McConnell, Fiona – University of Oxford [email protected] Thomas, Valentin – Université Paris-Dauphine [email protected] Mende, Janne – University of Kassel [email protected] Venturini, Tommasso – École Normale Supérieure of Lyon [email protected] Mesquita, Rafael - UFPE / GIGA [email protected] Weiss, Thomas – City University New York [email protected] Mitrani, Mor – Bar-Ilan University – [email protected] Worrall, James – School of Politics & International Müller, Birgit – EHESS / CNRS – [email protected] Studies, University of Leeds – [email protected]

Niezen, Ronald – McGill University [email protected]

Oksamytna, Kseniya – King’s College [email protected]

Patarin-Jossec, Julie – University of Bordeaux [email protected]

Patz, Ronny – LMU Munich [email protected]

Petiteville, Franck – Sciences Po Grenoble [email protected]

Piguet, Laure – University of Geneva [email protected]

13 Sponsors

The organizing committee would like to warmly thank all the sponsors that made this event possible.

Institut d'études politiques, historiques et internationales (IEPHI)

With the support of : Fonds Général de l’Université de Genève Commission administrative du Rectorat de l’Université de Genève Société Académique de Genève