Domesticating Human Rights - Ingiyimbere, Fidèle
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This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights, who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology, and that the humanitarian intervention for protecting human rights is a neo-colonialism. These claims affect the normativity and effectiveness of human rights; that is why they have to be taken seriously. At the same time, the same philosophical account dismisses the imperialist crusaders who support the imperialistic use of human rights…mehr

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This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights, who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology, and that the humanitarian intervention for protecting human rights is a neo-colonialism. These claims affect the normativity and effectiveness of human rights; that is why they have to be taken seriously. At the same time, the same philosophical account dismisses the imperialist crusaders who support the imperialistic use of human rights by the West to advance liberal culture.

Thus, after elaborating and exposing these criticisms, the book confronts them to the human rights theories of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, in order to see whether they can be addressed. Unfortunately, they are not. Therefore, having shown that these two philosophical accounts of human rights do not respond convincingly to those the postco
lonial challenges, the book provides an alternative conception that draws the understanding of human rights from local practices. It is a multilayer conception which is not centered on state, but rather integrates it in a larger web of actors involved in shaping the practice and meaning of human rights. Confronted to the challenges, this new conception offers a promising way for addressing them satisfactorily, and it even sheds new light to the classical questions of universality of human rights, as well as the tension between universalism and relativism.

Autorenporträt
Fidèle Ingiyimbere is a Jesuit from Burundi. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Boston College, with special interest in political-social philosophy, although he also works on continental philosophy, especially in phenomenology focused on the French philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In theology, he earned an STL from Boston College, School of Theology and Ministry, with special interest in social ethics. His areas of research are human rights, transitional justice and peace building for societies emerging from social-political crises. He has published in both areas books and articles, and some of his publications are, Etre et Expression, an essay on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, Human Rights as Means for Peace: The Catholic Understanding of Human Rights and the Catholic Church in Burundi, and Domesticating Human Rights: A Reappraisal of their Cultural-Political Critiques and their Imperialistic use. After working at Arrupe College-University of Zimbabwe and Arrupe Jesuit University in Harare-Zimbabwe, he was a visiting lecturer at different universities in Bujumbura and an independent researcher based in Bujumbura-Burundi. Now he has been appointed Senior Lecturer at CERAP/Université Jésuite, Abidjan-Ivory Cost.