Preventive Diplomacy at the UN (United Nations Intellectual History Project Series)

The concept of preventive diplomacy has captivated the United Nations since it was first articulated by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld a half-century ago. Successive generations of diplomats and statesmen have invested in the idea that diplomatic efforts might be able to head off international conflicts and disasters. Dramatic successes, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, contrast with dramatic failures, such as the inability of UN efforts to halt the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In this careful study, distinguished former UN civil servant Bertrand G. Ramcharan traces the history of the practice of preventive diplomacy by UN Secretaries-General, the Security Council, and other UN organizations, and assesses the record of preventive diplomacy and examines its prospects in an age of genocide and terrorism.

Politics & Social Sciences

Ramcharan, Bertrand G.

Politics & Government

Indiana University Press

The concept of preventive diplomacy has captivated the United Nations since it was first articulated by Secretary-General Dag HammarskjAld a half-century ago. Successive generations of diplomats and statesmen have invested in the idea that diplomatic efforts might be able to head off international conflicts and disasters. Dramatic successes, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, contrast with dramatic failures, such as the inability of UN efforts to halt the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In this careful study, distinguished former UN civil servant Bertrand G. Ramcharan traces the history of the practice of preventive diplomacy by UN Secretaries-General, the Security Council, and other UN organizations, and assesses the record of preventive diplomacy and examines its prospects in an age of genocide and terrorism.

Ramcharan, B. G.

Preventive Human Rights Strategies (Global Institutions)

The prevention of violations of human rights must become the dominant protection strategy of the twenty-first century, nationally, regionally, and globally. This book clearly identifies the need for preventive human rights strategies, maps what exists by way of such strategies at the present time, and offers policy options to deal with the world of the future. Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the book suggests the future lies in strong national protection systems backed up by regional and international organs and an international criminal justice system. The book explores the future of preventive human rights through a wide range of contemporary issues, including: <ul>
<li>climate change</li> <li>pandemics </li> <li>mass migration </li> <li>global poverty and pervasive inequality </li> <li>inter-state conflicts </li> <li>terrorism, including WMD terrorism</li> <li>gross violations of human rights</li> <li>the financial and economic crisis</li> </ul> We are already in a quite different world in the 21st century, and human rights thinking will need to evolve to meet its needs. This important and contemporary volume calls for the modification of current preventive human rights strategies, and is essential reading for all those concerned with the future of international relations and human rights.

Sociology

Routledge

Contemporary Human Rights Ideas (Global Institutions)

The vindication of human rights is a critical challenge of a new century. Yet, there is much contestation over rights in a globalizing, post 9/11 world, as human rights ideas come into contact with different cultures and with societies in varying stages of development. Leaders of government and civil society, and the academic world, are in need of policy and normative frameworks for treading the way forward in responding to these global challenges. Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003-2004), this book is a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the key human rights concepts, the current debates, strategies and institutions for taking forward the global implementation of human rights.

Constitutional Law

Contemporary Human Rights Ideas: Rethinking theory and practice (Global Institutions)

Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003–4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the foundational human rights ideas of our times and shows that every government is under international obligation to respect and uphold universal human rights. Updates include: <ul>
<li>Discussion of the recent intellectual challenges to the international human rights movement </li> <li>Examination of the establishment and functioning of the Human Rights Council and the Universal Review Process</li> <li>Evaluation of the developments in the area of the Responsibility to Protect and continued efforts to implement the right to development </li> <li>Inclusion of issues such as the push for compensation for slavery, experiments with democracy in a number of countries and the decisions of international judicial and human rights organs on conceptual and protection issues</li> </ul> This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Global Institutions, International Law and Human Rights.

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Preventive Diplomacy at the UN (United Nations Intellectual History Project Series)

Preventive Diplomacy at the UN (United Nations Intellectual History Project Series)

Preventive Human Rights Strategies (Global Institutions)

Preventive Human Rights Strategies (Global Institutions)

Contemporary Human Rights Ideas (Global Institutions)

Contemporary Human Rights Ideas (Global Institutions)

Contemporary Human Rights Ideas: Rethinking theory and practice (Global Institutions)