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State Violence and Human Rights - State Officials in the South (Paperback)
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State Violence and Human Rights - State Officials in the South (Paperback)
Series: Law, Development and Globalization
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State Violence and Human Rights addresses how legal practices -
rooted in global human rights discourse or local demands - take
hold in societies where issues of state violence remain to be
resolved. Attempts to make societies accountable to human rights
norms regularly draw on international legal conventions governing
state conduct. As such, interventions tend to be based on
inherently normative assumptions about conflict, justice, rights
and law, and so often fail to take into consideration the reality
of local circumstances, and in particular of state institutions and
their structures of authority. Against the grain of these analyses,
State Violence and Human Rights takes as its point of departure the
fact that law and authority are contested. Grounded in the
recognition that concepts of rights and legal practices are not
fixed, the contributors to this volume address their contestation
'in situ'; as they focus on the everyday practices of state
officials, non-state authorities and reformers. Addressing how
state representatives - the police officer, the prison officer, the
ex-combatant militia member, the hangman and the traditional leader
- have to negotiate the tensions between international legal
imperatives, the expectations of donors, the demands of
institutions, as well as their own interests, this volume thus
explores how legal discourses are translated from policy into
everyday practice.
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