Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights

✍ Scribed by Noha Shawki, Michaelene Cox

Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 251
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Providing an overview of institutional developments and innovations in human rights politics, this volume discusses some of the most important current and emerging human rights issues. It takes stock of the initiatives, policy responses and innovations of past years to identify some of the challenges that will likely require bold and innovative solutions. The contributors focus on actors and/or issues that are outside the mainstream of international human rights politics; the chapters address issues that have only emerged as an important part of the international human rights agenda and generated much advocacy, diplomacy and negotiations since the end of the Cold War. These issues include: the International Criminal Court, the norm of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), the proliferation of small arms and light weapons and its human rights impact, truth commissions, and the rights of persons with disabilities. The contributions offer a direct challenge to entrenched notions of state sovereignty and represent a departure from established ways of policy making.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
PART I Actors, Institutions, and Institutional Innovations......Page 18
1 Redefining Sovereignty: Humanitarianism’s Challenge to Sovereign Immunity......Page 20
2 Sovereignty Transformed? The Role of National Human Rights Institutions......Page 40
3 A New Actor in Human Rights Politics? Transgovernmental Networks of National Human Rights Institutions......Page 54
4 Universalism Meets Sovereignty at the International Criminal Court......Page 72
5 The Responsibility to Protect: Embracing Sovereignty and Human Rights......Page 94
6 Human Rights and Soft Law: Alternative Paths for New Challenges......Page 112
7Judging Truth: The Contributions of Truth Commissions in Post-Conflict Environments......Page 132
PART II Current Issues in International Human Rights......Page 152
8 Documenting Human Rights Abuses Among the Diaspora: Lessons Learned from the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission......Page 154
9 Viewing the Millennium Development Goals through Prisms of IR Theory: An Intersection of Human Rights and State Interests......Page 172
10 Human Rights, Glocal Ecopolitics,and Contested Landscapes of Sovereignty......Page 194
11 The Transnational Effort for Disability Rights: The Marriage of Disability Rights to Human Rights......Page 212
12 Small Arms, Sovereign States and Human Rights......Page 228
Index......Page 250

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