Human Rights and Development

ISBN-13: 9781138290167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 326 str.

Peris Jones

Opis

The only up-to-date textbook that provides a systematic, critical overview of the human rights-development nexus. The book will provide students and practitioners with an in-depth understanding of human rights as a development challenge, delineate the responses and alternative critical approaches from a theoretical and practical perspective Equips readers with the conceptual frameworks and analytical tools for independent investigation of key issues at the human rights/development interface. Wide-ranging in scope, multi-scalar in looking at global policy initiatives or vulnerable groups such as indigenous peoples Well developed pedagogy including: a student briefing in the introduction, questions for discussion at the end of each chapter, text boxes to highlight particular issues, theoretical approaches, examples, cases and annotated further reading.

O autorze

Peris S. Jones is Professor in the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, also serving as Director of the MA programme Human Rights in Theory and Practice.