Human Rights and Peace

Ideas, Laws, Institutions and Movements
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-81-7829-884-9
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Reihe: South Asian Peace Studies series

Human Rights and Peace: Ideas, Laws, Institutions and Movements redefines the ambit of peace, presenting a radically different perspective of looking at its relationship with human rights. It deals with the transformation of both the definition and practice of peace, showing how it has now taken the domain of human rights into its fold.

Through experiential articles on the themes of ideas, laws, institutions, and movements, this collection reveals how people's struggles against specific forms of institutionalised violence take the form of calls for 'peace'. It brings together hitherto unpublished writings on peace and human rights. It also includes some rare articles extracted from landmark published pieces.

This book is an insightful resource for students and researchers of Peace Studies, Human Rights, Politics, and International Relations. It is also an invaluable idea bank for activists, think tanks and policy makers who seek to understand the evolving paradigm of peace and human rights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Ujjwal Kumar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Human Rights and Peace: An Introduction - Ujjwal Kumar Singh
PART I: IDEAS AND VISIONS

Introduction - Anupama Roy
Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace - Director-General of UNESCO
In Life, In Death - Ranabir Samaddar
Archiving Disquiet: Feminist Praxis and the Nation-State - Uma Chakravarti
Democracy in Search of Dignity - Gopal Guru

On Liberation: Biography of a Consciousness - Manoranjan Mohanty
PART II: ENCOUNTERING UNDEMOCRATIC LAWS

Introduction - Bikram Jeet Batra
POTA and Beyond: The Silent Erosion - Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Gendered Face of Extraordinary Powers in North-East India - Paula Banerjee
Dalit Lynching at Dulina: Cow-Protection, Caste and Communalism - People's Union for Democratic Rights
War in the Heart of India - Independent Citizens' Initiative
Borders in the Mind, Bangladeshis: a Nowhere Policy for a Nowhere People - Pamela Philipose
PART III: RIGHTS MOVEMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS

Introduction - Ajay Gudavarthy
The Concept of Civil Liberties - Ram Manohar Lohia
Terrorism, State Terrorism and Democratic Rights - Randhir Singh
Human Rights Movement(s) in India: State, Civil Society and Beyond - Ajay Gudavarthy
Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab - Ram Narayan Kumar

The Punjab Mass Cremations Case: A Postscript - Ashok Aggarwal

National Human Rights Commissions and Internally Displaced Persons: The Sri Lankan Experience - Mario Gomes

Consolidated Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Singh, Ujjwal Kumar
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.