Transitional Justice and Development
Title | Transitional Justice and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Pablo De Greiff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Developing countries |
ISBN | 9780979077296 |
As developing societies emerge from legacies of conflict and authoritarianism, they are frequently beset by poverty, inequality, weak institutions, broken infrastructure, poor governance, insecurity, and low levels of social capital. These countries also tend to propagate massive human rights violations, which displace victims who are marginalized, handicapped, widowed, and orphaned--in other words, people with strong claims to justice. Those who work with others to address development and justice often fail to supply a coherent response to these concerns. The essays in this volume confront the intricacies--and interconnectedness--of transitional governance issues head on, mapping the relationship between two fields that, academically and in practice, have grown largely in isolation of one another. The result of a research project conducted by the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), this book explains how justice and recovery can be aligned not only in theory but also in practice, among both people and governments as they reform.
ICT for Education, Development, and Social Justice
Title | ICT for Education, Development, and Social Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Charalambos Vrasidas |
Publisher | IAP |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2009-03-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1607528827 |
This volume provides examples of current developments on the role of ICT for education, development, and social justice within an international context. Chapters draw on advanced contemporary thinking from scholars and practitioners in the field to present case studies of how ICT can be used to promote sustainable development and social justice. Social justice is understood in a wide sense as the pursuit of democracy, justice and development in the struggle against any form of oppression; it is within this context that ICT is explored as a tool for social change. The objectives of this book are: - To analyze the philosophical, historical, political, and cultural backgrounds and contexts that are constitutive of contemporary challenges and tensions in the role of ICT for education, development, and social justice around the world; - To appreciate the contextual and international dimensions of the tensions and challenges faced by educators around the world and contribute to ongoing efforts to sketch a vision for addressing their needs; - To explore ways in which ICT in education can promote social justice and contribute toward sustaining communities around the world
Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics
Title | Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Severine Deneulin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2014-02-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1317962680 |
The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either Marxism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability approach, first articulated by Amartya Sen in the early 1980s. Written for an international audience, but rooted in the Latin American reality - a region with a history of movements for social justice - the book argues that the capability approach provides to date, the most encompassing and compelling ethical framework with which to construct action for improving people’s wellbeing and reducing injustices in the world. This book outlines in a clear and concrete way what the capability approach is and its significance for the social sciences and policy. It describes the distinctiveness of the approach as an ethical framework for action and aims to stimulate critical reflection on current economic and social practices as well as providing a language with which to modify them within human wellbeing concerns. Comprehensive, practical and nuanced in its treatment of the capability approach, this highly original volume gives students, researchers and professionals in the field of development an innovative framing of the capability approach as a 'language' for action and provides specific examples of how it has made a difference.
Gender Justice, Citizenship and Development
Title | Gender Justice, Citizenship and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay |
Publisher | Zubaan |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781552503393 |
Although there have been notable gains for women globally in the last few decades, gender inequality and gender-based inequities continue to impinge upon girls' and women's ability to realize their rights and their full potential as citizens and equal partners in decision-making and development. In fact, for every right that has been established, there are millions of women who do not enjoy it. In this book, studies from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are prefaced by an introductory chapter that links current thinking on.
Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability
Title | Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability PDF eBook |
Author | Ottmar Edenhofer |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2012-06-25 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9400745400 |
Analysing and synthesising vast data sets from a multitude of disciplines including climate science, economics, hydrology and agricultural research, this volume seeks new methods of combining climate change mitigation, adaptation, development, and poverty reduction in ways that are effective, efficient and equitable. A guiding principle of the project is that new alliances of state and non-state sector partners are urgently required to establish cooperative responses to the threats posed by climate change. This volume offers a vital policy framework for linking our response to this change with progressive principles of global justice and sustainable development.
Global Justice and Sustainable Development
Title | Global Justice and Sustainable Development PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan French |
Publisher | Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2010-09-24 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004182667 |
In recognising the significant role law, especially international law, can play in supporting the objectives of global justice and sustainable development, this edited collection provides a wide-ranging analysis of some of the most fundamental challenges facing global society.
Global Justice and Development
Title | Global Justice and Development PDF eBook |
Author | J. Culp |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2014-08-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137389931 |
Defending a procedural conception of global justice that calls for the establishment of reasonably democratic arrangements within and beyond the state, this book argues for a justice-based understanding of social development and justifies why a democracy-promoting international development practice is a requirement of global justice.