This dissertation analyses the participation of non-state actors on the negotiations on access to genetic resources, traditional knowledge related to biodiversity and benefit-sharing on the scope of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. Using as reference the critical international theory elaborated by Andrew Linklater, this work examines the participation of those non-state actors in the ascension of a more inclusive process and in the normative contribution to the creation of new sorts of political community beyond the national boundaries. The research analyses whether the process of negotiation of the International Regime on Access and Benefit-sharing, from 2001 to 2006, has assured that the relevant stakeholders were included in a dialogue between differents advancing, in this way, the transformation of international community. The main conclusion is that the participation of non-state actors represents a meaningful victory of the stakeholders. Nevertheless, the persistent practices of exclusion undermine the development of a harmonization between universality and difference.