Human Rights And Development

"Advances an analysis of the need to effect social change at a global level and advocates a rights-based approach to economic development."
"--Reference and Research Book News," August 2004
*Links development and human rights theory with practice
*Written by an award-winning author and expert in the human rights and development fields
*Highly readable, passionate, and powerfully argued
In "Human Rights and Development," award-winning author Peter Uvin extends the examination of development aid and human rights violations that he presented in his book on the Rwandan genocide, Aiding Violence. Whereas that book is diagnostic, "Human Rights and Development" is prescriptive-a response to requests from development and human rights organizations to help them effect strategies for reducing conflict and improving human rights outcomes.
By advocating a rights-based approach to development, Uvin shows how practitioners can surmount the tough ethical and human rights obstacles encountered in their endeavors. But "Human Rights and Development" is much more than a "how to" book for practitioners. It is also a major scholar's profound, passionate, and clearly written analysis of the need to effect principled social change throughout the global arena that solidifies rather than fragments our common humanity.