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State Violence and Human Rights

Steffen Jensen, Andrew Jefferson
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      State Violence and Human Rights addresses how legal practices – rooted in global human rights discourse or local demands – take hold in societies where issues of state violence remain to be resolved. Attempts to make societies accountable to human rights norms regularly draw on international legal conventions governing state conduct. As such, interventions tend to be based on inherently normative assumptions about conflict, justice, rights and law, and so often fail to take into consideration the reality of local circumstances, and in particular of state institutions and their structures of authority. Against the grain of these analyses, State Violence and Human Rights takes as its point of departure the fact that law and authority are contested. Grounded in the recognition that concepts of rights and legal practices are not fixed, the contributors to this volume address their contestation 'in situ'; as they focus on the everyday practices of state officials, non-state authorities and reformers. Addressing how state representatives – the police officer, the prison officer, the ex-combatant militia member, the hangman and the traditional leader – have to negotiate the tensions between international legal imperatives, the expectations of donors, the demands of institutions, as well as their own interests, this volume thus explores how legal discourses are translated from policy into everyday practice.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Steffen Jensen, Andrew Jefferson EAN: 9780415477727 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 570 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-02-20 CITY: GENRE: LAW / General, LAW / International, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Human rights, civil rights

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      Stefen Jensen is based at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark Andrew Jefferson is based at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark
      State Violence and Human Rights addresses how legal practices – rooted in global human rights discourse or local demands – take hold in societies where issues of state violence remain to be resolved. Attempts to make societies accountable to human rights norms regularly draw on international legal conventions governing state conduct. As such, interventions tend to be based on inherently normative assumptions about conflict, justice, rights and law, and so often fail to take into consideration the reality of local circumstances, and in particular of state institutions and their structures of authority. Against the grain of these analyses, State Violence and Human Rights takes as its point of departure the fact that law and authority are contested. Grounded in the recognition that concepts of rights and legal practices are not fixed, the contributors to this volume address their contestation 'in situ'; as they focus on the everyday practices of state officials, non-state authorities and reformers. Addressing how state representatives – the police officer, the prison officer, the ex-combatant militia member, the hangman and the traditional leader – have to negotiate the tensions between international legal imperatives, the expectations of donors, the demands of institutions, as well as their own interests, this volume thus explores how legal discourses are translated from policy into everyday practice.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Steffen Jensen, Andrew Jefferson EAN: 9780415477727 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 570 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-02-20 CITY: GENRE: LAW / General, LAW / International, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Human rights, civil rights

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      Stefen Jensen is based at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark Andrew Jefferson is based at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark

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