This presentation was used to share my thoughts on the conceptual merits of utilizing business metaphors in international human rights compliance and enforcement activity. I presented it to a selection of faculty at the Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus, Denmark, in a presentation at their school in May, 2010.

1. Shape-Changers: Embracing Cross-Cultural Business Metaphors in International Human Rights Law by June Edvenson Edvenson Consulting Edvenson Legal © 2010

3. Metaphor analysis in human rights legal scholarship

4. The U.N.’s standard enforcement model

5. Knowledge-related approaches

6. Successful business metaphor analysis

7. Business metaphors for the future

9. International human rights are not matched by the means needed for their implementation.

10. IHR struggle to adapt and respond to human rights abuses.

11. Organizations responsible for abuses are not ’States,’ or are ’non-State’ actors.

13. Savage

14. Saviour

16. Transplantation

17. Viral propagation

19. Language of law

20. Universal values

22. Language of business

23. Locally embraced values

25. Current Responses Chaos, Control, Corruption See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

27. Derogations

28. Limitations

29. Investigations

30. ”Recommendations”

33. Organism

34. War

35. Game

36. Society

37. Machine

40. Not a game-changer

41. Ignores conflicting interests

42. Does not accommodate cultural differences

43. Does not recognize role of cultural relativism

44. Is a semantic exercise

46. Business Metaphors of the Future ’cathedral building’? The ’eclectic’? The shape-changer The market-place Voyaging Warring Surviving John J. Clancy

47. The Shape-changer Bird Bear Horse Chameleon Sight Strength Assistance Flexibility, seeming size

48. The market fair . . . of international human rights compliance & enforcement? Novelty Change Invisible powers Flexibility Ownership Investment

49. Changing behavior? ”human capabilities” approach ”truly human functioning” Amartya Sen Martha G. Nussbaum

50. Examples The ’disappeared’ An example of the viral metaphor Ownership National identity Family Africa Lack of ownership – membership - constituency Lack of participation – Risk of retribution No incentive to foster IHR language- norms

52. Ownership values

53. Trade-supportive

54. Self-reinforcing

55. Permeable

56. Organic growth

57. Broader partnerships

58. Self-perpetuating – viral

59. 360 degree feedback

60. Learning method based

61. Cross-cultural

62. Interdependent

63. Flourishing, Flow

64. Creative

65. Stress-sensitiveand . . . A SHAPE-CHANGER

66. The New IHR Journey:Utilizing the strength of successful business metaphorsSmartShape-changingSelf-perpetuatingSelf-reinforcingKnowledge sensitive June Edvenson Edvenson Consulting Edvenson Legal © 2010