Human Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

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Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim, Francis M. Deng
Brookings Institution Press, 1 thg 12, 2010 - 399 trang

This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries.

This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights.

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Introduction
1
Western Cultural Origins
13
The Effect of Western Perspectives on International Human Rights
15
Human Rights and Western Liberalism
31
Religious Perspectives
57
A Christian Perspective on Human Rights
59
The European Tradition of Human Rights and the Culture of Islam
104
Current Muslim Thinking on Human Rights
133
African Cultural Perspectives
241
An Akan Perspective on Human Rights
243
A Cultural Approach to Human Rights among the Dinka
261
Traditional Culture and the Prospect for Human Rights in Africa
290
Prospects for a CrossCultural Approach
329
Problems of Universal Cultural Legitimacy for Human Rights
331
Human Rights in an Evolving World Culture
368
Contributors
383

The Context of the NationState
157
Group versus Individual Identity in the African Debate on Human Rights
159
Human Rights in Francophone West Africa
184
Participatory Approaches to Human Rights in SubSaharan Africa
213
Subject Index
385
Name Index
393
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Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im African culture Akan Arab argue argument Asante Ashanti Banjul basic Bassam Tibi belief Burkina Faso Calvin chief Christian cieng civil and political claims colonial concept of human consensus context Côte d'Ivoire countries covenants cross-cultural cultural legitimacy cultural relativism cultural traditions Declaration of Human Deng Dinka economic emphasized ethnic example freedom fundamental groups human dignity human rights norms human rights standards idea institutions International Bill international human rights international law interpretations Islamic law Jack Donnelly John Locke justice liberal liberty lineage Locke Locke's ment modern moral Muslims natural law natural rights non-Western organizations person perspectives political rights principles protection Qur'an regime religion religious rights in Africa rule rural Second Treatise Senegal shari'a social Sudan theory tion tional traditional society Treatises of Government Universal Declaration universal human rights University Press values violations Western women

Giới thiệu về tác giả (2010)

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im was associate professor of law at Khartoum University and is now visiting professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan.

Francis M. Deng is a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies prog

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Tiêu đềHuman Rights in Africa: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Người biên tậpAbdullahi Ahmed An-naim, Francis M. Deng
Nhà xuất bảnBrookings Institution Press, 2010
ISBN0815715633, 9780815715634
Độ dài399 trang
  
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