Human Rights in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Redaktion: An-Naim, Abdullahi Ahmed; Deng, Francis M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 399
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780815715634
• Artikelnr.: 68980995

Autorenporträt

"Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im was associate professor of law at Khartoum University and is now visiting professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan.Francis M. Deng is a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies prog"