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Ending Africa's Wars: Progressing to Peace

by Oliver Furley & Roy May

Post-colonial Africa has seemingly been in an intractable state of conflict and war for a considerable period of time. This volume explores the process by which these wars were ended, discusses the lessons learnt,...


A Decade of Human Security: Global Governance and New Multilateralisms

by Sandra J. MacLean & David R. Black

Investigating innovations in the advancement of the human security agenda over the past decade, this comprehensive volume identifies themes and processes around which consensus for future policy action might...


Warrior's Dishonour: Barbarity, Morality and Torture in Modern Warfare

by George Kassimeris

The characteristic act of men at war is not killing. It is killing by committing shocking and unspeakable atrocities, when circumstances permit. What drives ordinary people into hatred, genocide, inhumanity...


Re-Orienting the Fundamentals: Human Rights and New Connections in EU-Asia Relations

by Georg Wiessala

This volume offers a wide-ranging, contemporary critique of the significance of human rights matters in the areas of Asia-Europe relations and the European Union's Asia policies.


European Security in Transition

by Gunther Hauser & Franz Kernic

Since the end of World War II, security and defence have played a major role in European politics. This compelling volume provides an interdisciplinary look at the development and current status of the European...


A Good Death?: Law and Ethics in Practice

by Lynn Hagger & Simon Woods

This volume presents an interdisciplinary perspective on end-of-life matters, covering themes such as patients' rights to determine their own good death, considering their best interests when communication becomes...


Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law

by Derya Bayir

This book argues that the state's failure to accommodate ethno-religious diversity in Turkey is attributable to the founding philosophy of Turkish nationalism and its heavy penetration into the socio-political...


Oscar Lopez Rivera: Between Torture and Resistance

by Osacar Lopez Rivera, Luis Nieves Falcon & Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The life story of Puerto Rican freedom fighter and leader Oscar López Rivera, outlined in this book, is one of courage, valor, and sacrifice. In 1981, Oscar was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other...


Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan

by Joel Fetzer & J Christopher Soper

Evaluating the “Asian values” thesis in Taiwan, Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan, by Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper, concludes that while Confucian values were used to bolster...


From Cape Town to Kabul: Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights

by Penelope Andrews

Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing...


Popular Music and Human Rights: Two-volume set

by Peddie

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right...


Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music

by Peddie

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right...


Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume I: British and American Music

by Peddie

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and the right...


The Human Rights Field Operation: Law, Theory and Practice

by O'Flaherty

This volume assesses the development of human rights field operations of the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations. It addresses a range of aspects concerning the nature, role and activities...


Civil Justice in the Age of Human Rights

by M. Jacob

The end of the last century witnessed two major events in the field of civil justice: the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) came into force and the Human Rights Act (HRA) gave effect to the European Convention on...


Globalizing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Revolution in Accountability

by Chandra Lekha Sriram

This major new study examines the developing practice of universal jurisdiction, as well as the broader phenomenon of "globalizing" justice, and its ramifications.

With a detailed overview of the contemporary...


Judicial Review & the Human Rights Act

by Richard Gordon & Tim Ward

The Human Rights Act 1998 had a profound effect on the law of the United Kingdom,and in no area more so than judicial review. This book gives practical guidance on the interplay between the Act and domestic...


European Human Rights Case Summaries

by Barbara Mensah

This book can be used together with the European Human Rights Case Locator or as a stand-alone volume. This book contains all the cases decided by the court from 1960 to 2000, set out in an informative and easy...


Battered Women, Their Children, and International Law: The Unintended Consequences of the Hague Child Abduction Convention

by Taryn Lindhorst & Jeffrey L. Edleson

An eye-opening appraisal of how current Hague Child Abduction Convention agreements unintentionally harm abused women and their children


International Responsibility and Grave Humanitarian Crises: Collective Provision for Human Security

by Hannes Peltonen

This book examines responsibility in grave humanitarian crises, focusing on the international community's collective responsibility to take action in such cases as genocide or ethnic cleansing.

The idea of collective...