Human rights deficits in the governance of global value chains (GVCs) are generally associated with business behavior, and lead to binary public and private regulatory responses.   Yet, fundamentally, GVC governance is an outcome of choice driven by states, and evidence suggests that the state’s engagement of business and affected stakeholders in GVC decision-making and oversight facilitates regulatory capacity to protect rights and remedy harms.  Drawing on ongoing theoretical and case-based research, this presentation exemplifies the concept and functioning of ‘transnational inclusive governance’ including key principles, processes and outputs, and linkages with international and local norms and institutions.  Broadening the analysis, it then explores the critical mass of cooperation needed to sustain transnational inclusive governance across GVC operations world-wide and thereby transform a global industry sector, and the implications of such inclusive governance for evolving approaches to ‘human rights due diligence’. 

Speaker

Janelle Diller, Senior Fellow in Residence, at the Global Governance Centre, the Graduate Institute

Discussant

Nico Krisch, Professor of International Law and Co-director of the Global Governance Centre at the Graduate Institute

This event is part of our our Global Governance Colloquium series.