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In Human Rights and Development, award-winning author Peter Uvin
extends the examination of development aid and human rights
violations that he presented in his book on the Rwandan genocide,
Aiding Violence. Whereas that book is diagnostic, Human Rights and
Development is prescriptive - a response to requests from
development and human rights organizations to help them effect
strategies for reducing conflict and improving human rights
outcomes. By advocating a rights-based approach to development,
Uvin shows how practitioners can surmount the tough ethical and
human rights obstacles encountered in their endeavors. But Human
Rights and Development is much more than a ""how to"" book for
practitioners. It is also a major scholar's profound, passionate,
and clearly written analysis of the need to effect principled
social change throughout the global arena that solidifies rather
than fragments our common humanity.
Burundi has recently emerged from twelve years of devastating civil
war. Its economy has been destroyed and hundreds and thousands of
people have been killed. In this book, the voices of ordinary
Burundians are heard for the first time. Farmers, artisans,
traders, mothers, soldiers and students talk about the past and the
future, war and peace, their hopes for a better life and their
relationships with each other and the state. Young men, in
particular, often seen as the cause of violence and war, talk about
the difficulties of living up to standards of masculinity in an
impoverished and war-torn society. Weaving a rich tapestry, Peter
Uvin pitches the ideas and aspirations of people on the ground
against the theory and assumptions often made by the international
development and peace-building agencies and organisations. In doing
this, he illuminates both shared goals and misunderstandings. This
groundbreaking book on conflict and society in Africa will have
profound repercussions for development across the world.
First Published in 1993, this is part of the Graduate Institute of
International Studies, Geneva series. This study looks at whether
scholars of international politics attempt to understand
cooperative behavior in the light of the theories developed by the
observers of both conflict and of cooperation. This volume expands
the short list of such works and does so with insight, a wide range
of scholarship and a willingness to test particular cases against
existing theory. The author has written a book which expands the
knowledge of, but also a thoughtful improvement of existing
theoretical approaches. Uvin's universe of enquiry excludes
military power and its application. It concentrates on the
long-term, complex organization of cooperative transnational
behavior and its rationale. Its focusses on functional issues
involving world hunger, a haunting background and result, and
perhaps even one cause, of the dreadful violence that characterizes
our world even as the threat of catastrophic nuclear warfare has
declined.
Burundi has recently emerged from twelve years of devastating civil
war. Its economy has been destroyed and hundreds and thousands of
people have been killed. In this book, the voices of ordinary
Burundians are heard for the first time. Farmers, artisans,
traders, mothers, soldiers and students talk about the past and the
future, war and peace, their hopes for a better life and their
relationships with each other and the state. Young men, in
particular, often seen as the cause of violence and war, talk about
the difficulties of living up to standards of masculinity in an
impoverished and war-torn society. Weaving a rich tapestry, Peter
Uvin pitches the ideas and aspirations of people on the ground
against the theory and assumptions often made by the international
development and peace-building agencies and organisations. In doing
this, he illuminates both shared goals and misunderstandings. This
groundbreaking book on conflict and society in Africa will have
profound repercussions for development across the world.
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