Activating human rights and peace : theories, practices and contexts / edited by Goh Bee Chen, Baden Offord, Rob Garbutt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Activating human rights and peace: an overview of theory, practice and context -- Karmic wisdom and international law, incorporating the proposed international peace charter -- Peacebuilding education: enabling human rights and social justice through cultural studies pedagogy -- Beyond the modern synecdoche: towards a non-fundamentalist human rights discourse -- New wars, old wars: thinking creatively about the prevention and transformation of violent conflict in the twenty-first century -- Voices for hope: story-telling and human rights -- Cambodia: the long hard journey to peace and human rights -- International recognition of autonomy for indigenous populations -- Human rights and the Beijing Olympics -- Everyday peace, human rights, belonging and local activism -- Mediation, human rights and peace-building in the Asia-Pacific -- A clash of paradigms for asylum seekers: border security and human security -- The war against terror: religion, clothing and the human right to peace -- Women, peace and securing human rights -- Intimate violence as human rights abuse: reframing intra-familial violence against women and children -- A pedagogy of peace -- Activating human rights and peace.