Activating human rights and peace : theories, practices and contexts / edited by Bee Chen Goh, Baden Offord and Rob Garbutt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goh, Bee Chen.

Offord, Baden, 1958-

Garbutt, Rob, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Peace.

Peace-building.

Human rights--Study and teaching.

Peace--Study and teaching.

Peace-building--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]

Contents:

Activating human rights and peace: an overview of theory, practice and context

Karmic wisdom and international law, incorporating the proposed international peace charter

Peacebuilding education: enabling human rights and social justice through cultural studies pedagogy

Beyond the modern synecdoche: towards a non-fundamentalist human rights discourse

New wars, old wars: thinking creatively about the prevention and transformation of violent conflict in the twenty-first century

Voices for hope: story-telling and human rights

Cambodia: the long hard journey to peace and human rights

International recognition of autonomy for indigenous populations

Human rights and the Beijing Olympics

Everyday peace, human rights, belonging and local activism

Mediation, human rights and peace-building in the Asia-Pacific

A clash of paradigms for asylum seekers: border security and human security

The war against terror: religion, clothing and the human right to peace

Women, peace and securing human rights

Intimate violence as human rights abuse: reframing intra-familial violence against women and children

A pedagogy of peace

Activating human rights and peace.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409430766

1409430766

9781409430773

1409430774

OCLC:

768041894