Which gets protection – belief or believer?

From the mid-1990s, the Organization of the Islamic Conference promoted the adoption of an anti-defamation resolution as a means of getting the protection of Islam and Muslims from defamation and discrimination in the Western world enshrined as a new norm within the UN system. After an initial period of receptivity, support for the idea waned. Claudia Baumgart-Ochse reconstructs the course of the OIC’s UN campaign between 1999 and 2011, exploring its political, historical, and human-rights context. She examines the underlying circumstances and normative clashes that prevented the norm from being incorporated into human-rights legislation. Dr Claudia Baumgart-Ochse is a Senior Researcher in the Research Department 'Private Actors in the Transnational Sphere'. Her main areas of interest are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the role of religious actors in international politics.