The politics of human rights protection : moving intervention upstream with impact assessment / Jan Knippers Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Jan Knippers, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Political violence.

Political atrocities--Case studies.

Political atrocities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2008, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This important work argues that human rights abuse is not necessarily about distant places and peoples, and it is neither incomprehensible nor inevitable. Despite seeming consensus about the importance of human rights protection, abuse-based in inequality-continues to expand. This empowering book seeks to break through barriers of ignorance, apathy, denial, and despair that allow decent people to tolerate indecent acts by their governments, and to arm a new generation of human rights advocates with analytical and strategic tools to prevent future atrocities.

Contents:

The human rights perspective and the need for impact assessment

What's in a name? Deconstructing human rights terms and concepts

The dialectics of building an international human rights regime

Human rights cleavages and controversies : the discourse

The globalization of vulnerability

From the ashes : Argentina's return from meltdown

Participation and accountability

Wayfarers in a walled-up world

Chile's long way home

The political dimensions of diversity

Feminism, democracy, and self-determination : the Taiwanese experience

The naked ape in nature : master or guardian?

China's three gorges : the dam and the damned

From sustainable war to sustainable peace

Against all odds : East Timor's quest for independence

Empire as a state of war

Terror and the war to end all rights

Cautious mainstreaming, constructive subversion

Conclusion : playing from strength.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-49603-4

9786612496035

0-7425-5729-4

OCLC:

341235108