Platform Orchestration and Soft Norm Development: Innovations Dialogue Platform of UNIDIR’s Security and Technology Program

Diplôme Master Platform Orchestration and Soft Norm Development: Innovations Dialogue Platform of UNIDIR’s Security and Technology Program eng 2025-09-01 author Xu Yuanze 421115 director Chen Yali 673311 Service enseignement, recherche, administratif et technique (SdS) (SCSPS) director Grand-Clement Sarah 699141 This internship report systematically summarizes my work and research experience from February to August 2025 in the Security and Technology Program at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). It combines the results of my internship with a case study of the Innovations Dialogue (ID), a multi-participant forum focused on emerging technologies and international security, from 2019 to 2024. The research is based on four theoretical perspectives: platform orchestration, norm entrepreneurship, policy discourse and knowledge power, and informal security governance. Through content analysis and discourse analysis of ID’s annual reports, the study finds that the platform has gradually formed a stable “three-stage” structure in terms of its discourse strategy – “risk-cooperation-norm”, which plays an important role in agenda setting, soft norm development and multi-party participation. At the same time, however, the platform still has limitations in terms of resource conditions, inclusiveness and the path of policy transformation. Based on the results of the study, the report reflects on the interaction and mutual reinforcement between theory and practice in multilateral emerging technology governance, considering my personal experience in horizon scanning, proofreading publications, outreach writing and conference support. UNIDIR Innovations Dialogue Disarmament governance Platform orchestration Norm entrepreneurship Policy discourse Informal governance Dewey 354.3 MIHDS Master in Innovation, Human Development and Sustainability 199 Institut de la gouvernance de l'environnement et du développement territorial TF false 3d4435ee-d7d8-48b2-abd8-851d12bde950 Master thesis Restricted Yuanze_-_Internship_Report-Final.pdf 451943 application/pdf c967bb55bf447dc67d8d9a2ec6221b4fabb0e0f5d975172880f9abac807391bb restrictedAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Institut de la gouvernance de l'environnement et du développement territorial

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