Among several contesting views about the purpose of development
and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities
(or human development) stand out as two approaches that are
concerned first and foremost with the well-being of individuals,
their freedom, dignity and empowerment. These two approaches
contrast sharply with the dominant development frameworks that
emphasize economic growth as the essential objective. Though human
rights and capabilities share these common commitment to human
priorities, they are distinct concepts and fields that have
developed separately. The aim of this volume is to explore the
relationship between them in order to enhance the understanding of
both as theoretical paradigms, as public policy frameworks and as
approaches to development.
The book includes contributions from some of the leading
scholars in the two fields of capabilities approach and human
rights. It covers the essential aspects of this relationship:
addressing the complementarities between human rights and
capabilities as theoretical concepts; how the concept of
capabilities can contribute to resolving some key theoretical
issues in human rights; how the social science analysis and methods
of the capabilities approach can clarify human rights concepts and
strengthen human rights advocacy; and how human rights norms can
strengthen public policy and mobilize collective action to demand
greater accountability in placing human priorities first in public
policy. Human Rights and the Capabilities Approach raises many
questions for further inter-disciplinary conversation and further
research.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, and has been
expanded with two additional articles from this journal and a new
foreword by Professor Amartya Sen.
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