Human Rights and Dynamic Humanism - Hardcover

Nagan, Winston P.; Cartner, John A.C.; Munro, Robert J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 900420265X ISBN 13: 9789004202658

Publisher: Brill | Nijhoff, 2016

Synopsis

This book emphasizes a forgotten aspect of human rights, i.e., to establish that human rights captures its meaning from human activism and advocacy. It explores factors which drive the advocacy of human rights integrating religious values reflected in human rights law. The book explores human rights activism in the history of ideas and the contributions of Celtic culture. It develops the framework for understanding the human rights struggle and the advocacy functions which drive it, exploring the critical role of emotion in the form of sentiment, either positive or negative, that promotes or prevents human rights violations. The negative sentiment chapter explores the major forms of human rights violations. Positive sentiment explores the role of affect, empathy and human solidarity in the promotion of the culture of human rights. Further chapters explore affect, gender, and sexual orientation, human rights and socio-economic justice, human rights and revolution, transitional justice, indigenous human rights, nuclear weapons and intellectual property.

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About the Author

Winston P. Nagan, J.S.D. (1977) is Sam T. Dell Research Scholar Professor of Law in UFL College of Law. He is widely published in human rights, a Fellow of the RSA, and Fellow and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the World Academy of Art & Science.

John A.C. Cartner, M.Sc., LL.M., Ph.D. (1975), District of Columbia bar, Law Society of England and Wales, principal author of The International Law of the Shipmaster (Informa, 2009) and has written and spoken on activism and seafarer human rights.

Robert J. Munro, J.D., Ph.D., College of Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Dr. Munro is the co-author of thirty-four books, including The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights: The History of Liberty and Freedom from the Ancient Celts to the New Millennium (University Press of America, 2004)

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill | Nijhoff
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 900420265X
• ISBN 13: 9789004202658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1026