Talking and teaching human rights and peace not only require strong convictions but also the capacity to question and verify their logical foundations as well as their potential to prevail over the equations of power within the world of reality. It is a book that mingles zeal for social transformation with a critical intellectual rigour that is resolute in interrogating the philosophical histories and their future under the new challenges attending on the emergent world-order. The implication of the pedagogical method the book follows are, indeed, far reaching. Students of human rights, peace researchers and policy makers should find the book to be indispensable.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ram Narayan Kumar
Ram Narayan Kumar, Director of the South Asian Orientation Course in Human Rights and Peace Studies, SAFHR, has been involved with human rights, democracy and peace issues since 1975 when he was imprisoned for 19 months for his vocal opposition to Emergency (June 1975 to March 1977). Kumar has authored several books on human rights, conflict and peace issues.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sonia Muller-Rappard
Sonia Muller-Rappard is a jurist currently with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nepal Office. She did her LLM at the School of Oriental and African Studies, university of London, and has since worked with Partners for Law in development in Delhi, the European Commission in Brussels and with SAFHR’s HRPS programme.
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