Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context: Colombia, Sierra Leone, and Northern Ireland

By: Eileen Babbitt

Book Overview

Preventing sweeping human rights violations or wars and rebuilding societies in their aftermath require an approach encompassing the perspectives of both human rights advocates and practitioners of conflict resolution. While these two groups work to achieve many of the same goals--notably to end violence and loss of life--they often make different assumptions, apply different methods, and operate under different values and institutional constraints...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632053
• ISBN13: 9780815632054
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"