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Informationen zum Autor Jan Knippers Black is professor in the Graduate School of International Policy Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. For an interview with the author on Women News Network, please click here. To view the author discussing her book on Evening Insight, please click here. Klappentext This important work argues that human rights abuse is not necessarily about distant places and peoples, and it is neither incomprehensible nor inevitable. Despite seeming consensus about the importance of human rights protection, abuse-based in inequality-continues to expand. This empowering book seeks to break through barriers of ignorance, apathy, denial, and despair that allow decent people to tolerate indecent acts by their governments, and to arm a new generation of human rights advocates with analytical and strategic tools to prevent future atrocities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Human Rights Perspective and the Need for Impact AssessmentPart I: The Politics of a Human Rights AgendaChapter 2: What's in a Name? Deconstructing Human Rights Terms and ConceptsChapter 3: The Dialectics of Building an International Human Rights RegimeChapter 4: Human Rights Cleavages and Controversies: The DiscoursePart II: The Right to Eat: Social and Economic RightsChapter 5: The Globalization of VulnerabilityChapter 6: From the Ashes: Argentina's Return from MeltdownPart III: The Right to Belong: Civil and Political RightsChapter 7: Participation and AccountabilityChapter 8: Wayfarers in a Walled-Up WorldChapter 9: Chile's Long Way HomePart IV: The Right to be Different: Cultural RightsChapter 10: The Political Dimensions of DiversityChapter 11: Feminism, Democracy, and Self-Determination: The Taiwanese ExperiencePart V: The Right to the Commons: Environmental RightsChapter 12: The Naked Ape in Nature: Master or Guardian?Chapter 13: China's Three Gorges: The Dam and the DamnedPart VI: The Right to a Just PeaceChapter 14: From Sustainable War to Sustainable PeaceChapter 15: Against All Odds: East Timor's Quest for IndependencePart VII: The Elephant in the RoomChapter 16: Empire as a State of WarChapter 17: Terror and the War to End All RightsPart VIII: Strategic Focus: No Promised Land in Denial ValleyChapter 18: Cautious Mainstreaming, Constructive SubversionConclusion: Playing from StrengthAppendix: Human Rights Impact Assessment: Tips and Tools...
