Human Rights and Development

* 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. "In this book, by advocating a rights-based approach to development, the author shows how practitioners can surmount the tough ethical and human rights obstacles encountered in their endeavors. But this book 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." -- BACK COVER Contents -1 Acknowledgments -1 Abbreviations and Acronyms -1 Introduction -1 1 Background -1 2 The Legal Challenges -1 3 The Basics 59 4 Political Conditionality -1 5 Positive Support 95 6 A Rights Based Approach to Development -1 7 Final Synthesis and Questions -1 Notes -1 Bibliography -1 Index -1