Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The greatest undiagnosed problem in international law
- 2 From disparity to centrality: How the human rights to peace and development can be secured
- 3 Confronting structural injustice: Strategies of localization, regionalism, and an emerging global constitutional order
- 4 The power of law versus the law of power: How human rights can overcome inequality, poverty, and vested interests
- 5 A world community that includes all human communities: Indigenous communities and the global environment as sources for human rights claims
- 6 Actualizing the human right to peace: Paths for developing processes and creating conditions for peace
- Conclusion Transformation through cooperation: Implementing a human rights–based approach to human security
- Biography of Terrence E. Paupp
- Appendix 1 Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions (The Paris Principles)
- Appendix 2 Tilburg Guiding Principles on World Bank, IMF, and Human Rights
- Appendix 3 Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples (Algiers, 4 July 1976)
- Appendix 4 The Freedom Charter (Africa, 1955)
- Index
- References
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The greatest undiagnosed problem in international law
- 2 From disparity to centrality: How the human rights to peace and development can be secured
- 3 Confronting structural injustice: Strategies of localization, regionalism, and an emerging global constitutional order
- 4 The power of law versus the law of power: How human rights can overcome inequality, poverty, and vested interests
- 5 A world community that includes all human communities: Indigenous communities and the global environment as sources for human rights claims
- 6 Actualizing the human right to peace: Paths for developing processes and creating conditions for peace
- Conclusion Transformation through cooperation: Implementing a human rights–based approach to human security
- Biography of Terrence E. Paupp
- Appendix 1 Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions (The Paris Principles)
- Appendix 2 Tilburg Guiding Principles on World Bank, IMF, and Human Rights
- Appendix 3 Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples (Algiers, 4 July 1976)
- Appendix 4 The Freedom Charter (Africa, 1955)
- Index
- References
Summary
This book is dedicated to examining the greatest undiagnosed problem in international law: the failure of the nations of the Global North to accommodate, respect, and incorporate the legitimate claims of the nations of the Global South through a principled and comprehensive adherence to the legal mandates contained in the human rights to peace and development. From a historical viewpoint, it has been well established that the content of Western-dominated human rights discourse has traditionally been characterized by an overemphasis on civil and political rights, often to the exclusion of socioeconomic rights and the human right to peace. In part, this capture of the human rights discourse can be largely attributed to the inordinate dominance of the evolution of the human rights discourse by Western scholars who have – as a class – remained ideologically opposed to engaging in a reconception of the global order in some form other than that of capitalist domination by a transnational capitalist class (of which they have been the beneficiaries and proponents). Hence, in failing to even consider the claims of other human rights scholars, social movements, and changes in power relations in the world – as between the Global North and Global South – there has remained a lingering adherence to Eurocentric models, values and experiences in the dominant legal discourse of the West.
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