Human Rights, Law and Justice

Catalog description

Applies anthropological perspectives to issues relating to human rights, law, and justice with special attention to themes of peacekeeping and peace building, democracy and the rule of law, and the politics of truth, justice, and reconciliation in conflict and post-conflict countries. Examines particular cases from Latin America, South Asia, Africa, and Southeast Asia to consider some of the questions facing countries that are emerging from periods of significant human rights violations, including how to attribute responsibility and guilt, how to deal with perpetrators, and how to provide proper redress to victims.