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Human rights and justice for all ::demanding dignity in the United States and around the world /
No full text"Human rights is an empowering framework for understanding and addressing justice issues at local, domestic, and international levels. This book combines U.S.-based case studies with examples from other regions of the world to explore important human rights themes - the equality, universality, and interdependence of human rights, the idea of international crimes, strategies of human rights change, and justice & reconciliation in the aftermath of human rights violations. From Flint and Minneapolis to Xinjiang and Mt. Sinjar, this book challenges readers to consider how human rights apply to their own lives and equips them to be changemakers in their own communities"-
The United Nations Security Council and humanitarian intervention: Causal stories about human rights and war.
No full textUniversity of Minnesota. Ph.D. dissertation. June 2008. Major: Political Science. Advisor: Sikkink, Kathryn. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 436 pages.A dramatic shift in international practice emerged in the 1990s when the United Nations Security Council authorized military humanitarian intervention to stop gross human rights violations. During the Cold War, the Security Council did not halt mass killing and sanctioned states that intervened in sovereign states, despite humanitarian motives or effects. It has responded unevenly to mass killing, however. This dissertation seeks to answer the puzzle of why the Security Council intervenes militarily in defense of human rights in some places but fails to stop ethnic cleansing in others. It traces the emergence of a new norm of humanitarian intervention, the course of its evolution (1991-2004) and the conditions of its use. The dissertation relies on qualitative, comparative case studies: the establishment of no-fly zones in Iraq; three cases of Security Council authorized humanitarian intervention (Somalia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Sierra Leone); and three "non-cases" where humanitarian intervention might have been expected but was not authorized (Rwanda, Kosovo and Darfur, Sudan). There is a connection between the ways that Council Members argue about conflicts and their intervention decisions. For humanitarian intervention to become possible, members of the Security Council, including most of its permanent members, must adopt or accede to a common story about the character of the conflict and its resultant human rights violations-- an intentional causal story with clear victims and identifiable and intentional perpetrators. When significant contestation over competing causal stories occurs, the success of any particular causal story is mediated by: the extent to which humanitarian intervention in that particular case would conflict with or complement the highly internalized norms of state sovereignty and non-intervention; the support of Great Power leadership; and the coherence between causal stories and expert testimony, forensic evidence, and media imagery on the cause and character of the conflict. I conclude that humanitarian intervention does not threaten sovereignty but reformulates it to include citizen protection and the recognition of fundamental human rights. The nascent norm of humanitarian intervention, encapsulated in the responsibility to protect, is gaining international support but has not yet cascaded throughout the international system.Walling, Carrie Booth. (2008). The United Nations Security Council and humanitarian intervention: Causal stories about human rights and war.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/91712
The United Nations Security Council and Human Rights Advocacy
Get PDFThis paper explores how human rights activism at the domestic and international level has led to the formal institutionalization of new accountability standards including formal guidelines on prosecutions and amnesties at the United Nations. The paper also explores how norm entrepreneurs inside and outside the UN Security Council have shaped Security Council practice such that it is now contributing to the protection of human rights through selective humanitarian intervention and referrals to the International Criminal Court; as well as the further development of the justice norm through its initiative on the rule of law and the endorsement of UN standards for transitional states. The paper examines how the advocacy practices of the human rights movement have contributed to these developments. It also asks the question whether or not particular Security Council practices should be understood as a new form of human rights advocacy and what the implications of increased Security Council involvement in the regulation of domestic human rights practices of states might be
Finding Restoration in the Prison Classroom: Teaching Transitional Justice on the Inside
Get PDFI would speak to the experience and lessons of teaching human rights and transitional justice courses inside a state correctional facility with a combined student cohort of traditional undergraduate students and incarcerated students in a shared classroom behind prison walls. The course focuses on collaborative learning and community building and was a revolutionary way to explore core transitional justice themes of forgiveness, reconciliation, truth telling and the tensions between restorative and retributive justice. Collectively we build hope by recognizing our common humanity
Human Rights: From Practice to Policy
Get PDFThis volume documents an extended conversation among nearly a dozen distinguished practitioners of human rights and leading scholars of the human rights movement, retrospectively exploring the impact of major human rights organizations on the construction of international human rights norms and standards.University of Michigan: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, The Center for Ethics and Public Life; The Center for International and Comparative Studies, The International Policy Center, the Center for International Business Education, The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the School of Public Health.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89426/4/PRACTICE_TO_POLICY.pd
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Community-Engaged Learning in Liberal Arts Colleges: Developing Engaged Citizens
No full textEmploying an institutional case study approach, this manuscript features two high-impact learning opportunities open to Albion College students who seek to contribute to solving real-world problems in collaboration with local and surrounding communities: Albion College Community Collaborative (AC3) and Human Rights Lab. The programmatic approach to community-engaged partnerships featured sought to elevate local knowledge, promote engaged citizenship, and advance social, political, and economic change. We describe each program followed by lessons learned and critical considerations to advance the field and to inform the work of others seeking to employ a programmatic approach
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