Displacing Human Rights - War and Intervention in Northern Uganda

Displacing Human Rights lays bare the reductive understandings motivating Western intervention in Africa, the inadequate tools it insists on employing, its refusal to be accountable to African citizenries, and, most important, its counterproductive consequences for peace, human rights, and justice.

About the author

Adam Branch is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University

Summary

Displacing Human Rights lays bare the reductive understandings motivating Western intervention in Africa, the inadequate tools it insists on employing, its refusal to be accountable to African citizenries, and, most important, its counterproductive consequences for peace, human rights, and justice.

Additional text

While there is other literature looking at the negative/unintended consequences of international human rights action, what Branch brings to the table is a breadth of analysis while simultaneously focusing on Ugandaa welcome contribution, given the lack of work in the area on Uganda.

Product details

• Authors: Branch, Adam Branch, Adam (Associate Professor Branch
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2011
• EAN: 9780199782086
• ISBN: 978-0-19-978208-6
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education