Terrence E Paupp

Redefining Human Rights in the Struggle for Peace and Development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the history of the struggle to advance human rights and provides a global framework of constitutional protections to implement these rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 577
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 985g
• ISBN-13: 9781107047150
• ISBN-10: 1107047153
• Artikelnr.: 40189581

Autorenporträt

Terrence E. Paupp is the Vice-President, North America, of the International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) and Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), Washington, DC. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Beyond Global Crisis: Remedies and Road Maps by Daisaku Ikeda and his Contemporaries (2012); The Future of Global Relations: Crumbling Walls, Rising Regions (2009); Exodus from Empire: The Fall of America's Empire and the Rise of the Global Community (2007); and Achieving Inclusionary Governance: Advancing Peace and Development in First and Third World Nations (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The greatest undiagnosed problem in international law; 2. From disparity
to centrality: how the human rights to peace and development can be
secured; 3. Confronting structural injustice: strategies of localization,
regionalism, and an emerging 'global constitutional order'; 4. The power of
law vs. the law of power: how human rights can overcome inequality,
poverty, and vested interests; 5. A world community that includes all human
communities: indigenous communities and the global environment as sources
for human rights claims; 6. Actualizing the human right to peace: paths for
developing processes and creating conditions for peace; 7. Transformation
through cooperation: implementing a human rights-based approach to human
security, peace, and development.