Strengthening Allied Support: Enabling Ocean Defenders' Resistance Efforts to Human Rights Violations in the Ocean Economy
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Abstract
The ocean economy is expanding rapidly as a driver of global economic growth, but this expansion often comes at a high cost to coastal communities. These communities bear the burdens of environmental degradation, displacement, and human rights violations due to longstanding marginalization and exclusion from decision-making processes. In response, many coastal communities – recognized as ocean defenders - are organizing to resist these impacts using diverse mechanisms, including communication campaigns, legal actions, and advocacy for fair compensation from governments and corporations. However, significant power imbalances challenge the success of these resistance efforts, making the support of allied organizations, such as grassroots networks, funders, non-profit legal organizations, researchers and network of academics, journalists, human rights institutions, and NGOs, essential. Despite this need, the role and potential impact of allied organizations remain understudied.In this context, we present findings from semi-structured interviews with ocean defenders and representatives from allied organizations worldwide. Our findings, grounded in the lived experiences and needs of ocean defenders and their allied organizations, highlight the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration and the value of diverse knowledge systems for addressing human rights issues in the ocean context. By showcasing these experiences, we underscore the mechanisms coastal communities use to protect their livelihoods, which align with the right to a healthy ocean and sustainable management practices. Additionally, considering the struggles rooted in power imbalances and unjust economic practices, this talk invites listeners to reconsider current ocean governance approaches and identify leverage points for more inclusive and respectful models that strive toward sustainable development. We conclude with key recommendations for enhancing collaboration and support for ocean defenders, emphasizing how allied organizations can effectively bolster coastal communities’ resistance efforts.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.018 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".