Framing Norm Through Riskification: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Norm
This article combines research strands on international norms, framing, and riskification to elaborate the framing methods used by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to effect an anti-nuclear weapons norm around the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The...
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| description | This article combines research strands on international norms, framing, and riskification to elaborate the framing methods used by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to effect an anti-nuclear weapons norm around the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The anti-nuclear weapons norm goes beyond the prevailing non-use norm by prohibiting all activities related to nuclear weapons. With riskification, an issue is turned into a risk, with the associated danger characterized as less than existential, lacking immediacy, and future-oriented. Risks cannot be eradicated and can only be managed; the management of risks is oriented inward toward the referent object, for example, by strengthening its resilience. By employing framing analyses from social movement theory, an examination into ICAN’s diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framings in its three stages of norm formulation, formalization, and cascade finds ICAN’s depiction of the danger posed by nuclear weapons as well as its proposed solution as a form of riskification. It also reveals that while the framing target audience heavily determines the ICAN’s diagnostic and prognostic framings, its motivational framing relies on current global events to justify its proposed collective action. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d89736a445874a02b9cc1629a8267d5a2025-08-20T03:29:06ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament2575-16542025-01-018121423810.1080/25751654.2025.2494869Framing Norm Through Riskification: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Anti-Nuclear Weapons NormChristian Harijanto0School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University, Perth, AustraliaThis article combines research strands on international norms, framing, and riskification to elaborate the framing methods used by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to effect an anti-nuclear weapons norm around the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The anti-nuclear weapons norm goes beyond the prevailing non-use norm by prohibiting all activities related to nuclear weapons. With riskification, an issue is turned into a risk, with the associated danger characterized as less than existential, lacking immediacy, and future-oriented. Risks cannot be eradicated and can only be managed; the management of risks is oriented inward toward the referent object, for example, by strengthening its resilience. By employing framing analyses from social movement theory, an examination into ICAN’s diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framings in its three stages of norm formulation, formalization, and cascade finds ICAN’s depiction of the danger posed by nuclear weapons as well as its proposed solution as a form of riskification. It also reveals that while the framing target audience heavily determines the ICAN’s diagnostic and prognostic framings, its motivational framing relies on current global events to justify its proposed collective action.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/25751654.2025.2494869International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsTreaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weaponsriskificationframingnuclear deterrencenon-use norm |
| spellingShingle | Christian Harijanto Framing Norm Through Riskification: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Norm Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons riskification framing nuclear deterrence non-use norm |
| title | Framing Norm Through Riskification: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Norm |
| title_full | Framing Norm Through Riskification: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Norm |
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| title_short | Framing Norm Through Riskification: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Anti-Nuclear Weapons Norm |
| title_sort | framing norm through riskification the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons and the anti nuclear weapons norm |
| topic | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons riskification framing nuclear deterrence non-use norm |
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