S6E9: International Relations with Andrea Schapper

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Claudia talks to Andrea Schapper about animals and international relations with an explicit focus on the United Nations. They discuss how animal rights are absent in the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the promise of the rights of nature framework being employed in Latin America.

Date Recorded: 5 December 2023

Andrea Schapper is a Professor in International Politics at the University of Stirling. In September and October 2022, she was a Guest Scholar at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law in Lund, Sweden. She also held a Senior Fellowship at the Berlin-Potsdam Research Group 'The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline' in October 2020 and was Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany for several months in 2016 and 2017. Prior to joining the University of Stirling in 2015, she was a Lecturer in International Relations at the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany (2012-2015). Her PhD is from the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (Universität Bremen, 2011) and she has previously studied at Cornell University (USA), Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany) and the United Nations Office at Geneva (United Nations Graduate Study Program, Switzerland). Andrea has worked for international organizations, like the International Labour Organization (ILO in Geneva, Switzerland), and non-governmental organizations, such as the National Domestic Workers' Movement (India) or the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (Zambia). She has conducted field research in Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia and Zambia. Andrea’s research focuses on environmental justice and on new developments at the intersection of human rights and the environment, including new forms of institutional interactions and actor constellations fostering links between the two policy fields. She also has a strong interest in rights of nature and animal rights. Connect with Andrea via email ([e-mail]).

Featured:

• Transforming our world? Strengthening animal rights and animal welfare at the United Nations by Andrea Schapper and Cebuan Bliss
• The 18th Sustainable Development Goal by Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers
• Universal Declaration of Mother Earth by the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. A bit about Andrea (00:03:58)

3. Human Rights and Environmental Challenges (00:08:05)

4. What is International Relations? (00:11:05)

5. [Ad] Birds of a Feather Talk Together (00:19:12)

6. (Cont.) What is International Relations? (00:19:13)

7. Animal Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (00:20:25)

8. Compounding Conflicts and Consultations (00:27:05)

9. Including Animals in International Relations (00:33:54)

10. Rights of Nature (00:37:20)

11. International Architecture (00:40:15)

12. One Health and the World Health Organization (00:47:35)

13. Quote (00:49:25)

14. Currently Working on (00:54:58)

15. Animal Highlight: Red Kites (00:56:40)

16. Credits (01:15:23)