Human rights and peace :

Human rights and peace : ideas, laws, institutions and movements / edited by Ujjwal Kumar Singh. - New Delhi : SAGE, 2009. - xvii, 345 p. ; 22 cm. - South Asian peace studies ; v. 4 . - South Asian peace studies ; v. 4. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-332) and index.

Human Rights and Peace: An Introduction /​ Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Sect. A Ideas and Visions
1.Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 39/​11
2.The Human Right to Peace: Peace Declaration by the Director-General of UNESCO
3.In Life, In Death /​ Ranabir Samaddat
4.SAARC in 2020: The Dream, the Nightmare and the Wake-up Call /​ Rubina Saigol
5.Archiving Disquiet: Feminist Praxis and the Nation-State /​ Uma Chakravarti
6.Democracy in Search of Dignity /​ Gopal Guru
7.On Liberation: Biography of a Consciousness /​ Manoranjan Mohanty
Sect. B Encountering Undemocratic Laws
8.POTA and Beyond: The Silent Erosion /​ Ujjwal Kumar Singh
9.Gendered Face of Extraordinary Powers in North-East India /​ Paula Banerjee
10.Dalit Lynching at Dulina: Cow-Protection, Caste and Communalism /​ People's Union for Democratic Rights
11.War in the Heart of India /​ Independent Citizens' Initiative
Contents note continued: 12.Borders in the Mind: Bangladeshis, a Nowhere Policy for a Nowhere People /​ Pamela Philipose
Sect. C Rights, Movements and Institutions
13.The Concept of Civil Liberties /​ Ram Manohar Lohia
14.Terrorism, State Terrorism and Democratic Rights /​ Randhir Singh
15.Human Rights Movement(s) in India: State, Civil Society and Beyond /​ Ajay Gudavarthy
16.Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab /​ Ram Narayan Kumar
17.The Punjab Mass Cremations Case: A Postscript /​ Ashok Aggarwal
18.National Human Rights Commissions and Internally Displaced Persons: The Sri Lankan Experience /​ Mario Gomez.

"Human Rights and Peace: Ideas, Laws, Institutions and Movements redefines the ambit of peace, presenting a radically different perspective of looking at its relationship with human rights. It deals with the transformation of both the definition and practice of peace, showing how it has now taken the domain of human rights into its fold." "Through experiential articles on the themes of ideas, laws, institutions, and movements, this collection reveals how people's struggles against specific forms of institutionalised violence take the form of calls for 'peace'. It brings together hitherto unpublished writings on peace and human rights. It also includes some rare articles extracted from landmark published pieces."--BOOK JACKET.

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