Displacing Human Rights: War and Intervention in Northern Uganda - Hardcover

Branch, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199782083 ISBN 13: 9780199782086

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

In this book, Adam Branch argues that Western intervention is a major part of the problem of violence in Africa, often undermining human rights and even prolonging war and intensifying anti-civilian violence. Based on an extended case study of Western intervention into northern Uganda's twenty-year civil war, and drawing on his own extensive research and human rights activism there, this book lays bare the reductive understandings motivating Western intervention in Africa, the inadequate tools it insists on employing, its refusal to be accountable to African citizenries, and, most important, its counterproductive consequences for peace, human rights, and justice. Motivated by a commitment to global justice, it proposes concrete changes for Western humanitarian, peacebuilding, and justice interventions. It also offers a new normative framework for re-orienting the Western approach to violent conflict in Africa around a practice of genuine solidarity.

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About the Author

Adam Branch is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199782083
• ISBN 13: 9780199782086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336