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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Examines the history of the struggle to advance human rights and provides a global framework of constitutional protections to implement these rights. Zusammenfassung Examines the history of the struggle to advance human rights! end global poverty! and respect the sovereign integrity of States and governments throughout the Global South! providing a global framework to implement these rights. It argues that within this framework States will be obligated to formulate policies and programs to achieve peace and development throughout the global society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
