Human Rights and Peace: Ideas, Laws, Institutions and Movements: Ideas, Laws, Institutiions and Movements (South Asian Peace Studies series) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 8178298848 ISBN 13: 9788178298849

Verlag: SAGE, 2008

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Human Rights and Peace: Laws, Institutions and Movements

explores the shifts in the way peace has been envisaged in the rhetoric and practice of human rights. Peace has come to be seen as a continuing process of the pursuit of liberation, a progressive dismantling of relationships, of exploitation based on gender, caste, class, race, ethnicity and nationality, and a countervailing force to the coercive practices of the state. Woven around the themes of ideas, laws and institutions, and movements, the articles in this volume show how peace has become an over-arching framework in the domain of human rights. The book traces how the idea of peace has transformed from a passive condition of 'sepulchral silence' associated with 'guided' peace, into a praxis led by and producing radical politics of liberatory change.

The volume examines:

"The distinct claims that peace makes to durable rights which are not subject to arbitrary withdrawals or selective investment by the state;

"The articulations of right to peace in the largely unexplored processes of 'conflict resolution' in South Asia; and

"The role of human rights movement and institutions in situations of prolonged absence of peace, sustained repression by the state, and unprecedented growth in non-state violence of all kinds.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ujjwal Kumar Singh is Reader, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has been a Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi (2002-2004), and taught earlier at Hindu College, Delhi University, and Panjab University, Chandigarh. Dr Singh has previously published Political Prisoners in India (1998, 2001). He has written and published extensively on laws and institutions, electoral governance and issues concerning democratic rights. He is currently engaged in editing a volume on Peace and Human Rights: Ideas, Institutions and Movements.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 8178298848
• ISBN 13: 9788178298849
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 345
• Herausgeber: Singh Ujjwal Kumar
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar