tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38587925309531801522024-03-13T23:43:02.676-06:00HRHW Roundtable blog: human rights, foreign policy, current issuesHuman Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-87335532623282975302011-05-18T19:55:00.002-06:002011-05-18T19:59:47.874-06:00April 2011: Responsibility to Protect and Human Rights Protection in the Ivory CoastEditor's Introduction“The Case for Intervention in the Ivory Coast” by Corinne Dufka. Foreign Policy. March 25 2011.On 30 March 2011, the UN Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of its Charter, adopted Resolution 1975, which urged the defeated President Gbagbo to immediately step aside and declared the situation in the Ivory Coast to be a threat to international security. The resolution Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-46392329352004434962011-05-18T19:49:00.003-06:002011-05-18T19:55:12.865-06:00A Rights-Based Approach to Global Injusticeby Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University“There has already been a military response to the Ivory Coast. Should we wait to reflect on global injustice until we see the graphic images of genocide and tragedy elsewhere, or can we use a rights-based lens to care about global injustice as part of our everyday lives?”Is reflection on global injustice part of the everyday lives of those who live in Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-55332027329804263572011-05-18T19:44:00.003-06:002011-05-18T19:48:35.950-06:00Pandora’s Box of Humanitarian Interventionby Edzia Carvalho, University of Mannheim“It seems that while states are often slow to react to egregious violations of human rights, they can be moved to action when the domestic and international costs and foreseeable risks of such interventions are low and the benefits are high. Domestic and international non-state actors, particularly NGOs and human rights lobbies, could help alter these Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-81087122621994585132011-05-18T19:39:00.003-06:002011-05-18T19:44:06.908-06:00Double Standards Demystifiedby Jonas Claes, U.S. Institute of Peace“In an ideal world, these considerations would be subordinate to the urgency and gravity of a humanitarian crisis. But a world in which the risk of atrocities automatically triggers a strong response seems far off. Double standards are an unpleasant reality that sprout from the nature of international politics, and will remain part and parcel of the Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-18200902686324105132011-05-18T19:36:00.003-06:002011-05-18T19:38:39.285-06:00A Structural Solution to Africa’s Wayward Presidentsby Devin Joshi, University of Denver“Of course, any international response to this crisis should aim to restore and keep peace and to bring Laurent Gbagbo and other perpetrators of these atrocities to the International Criminal Court. Yet, it would also be wise to deal with some of the structural factors that have led to violent conflict in Cote d’Ivoire’s past and which continually plague the Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-62569263370764213522011-04-03T19:24:00.003-06:002011-04-03T19:29:02.673-06:00March 2011: Libya and the Responsibility to ProtectEditor's Introduction“It’s Time to Intervene” by Shadi Hamid. Slate. February 23 2011.The UN Security Council Resolution 1973 on March 17 marks a historical event: the first military implementation of the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) since world leaders adopted at the United Nations World Summit in 2005 the collective responsibility to respond in a timely and decisive manner Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-29030035699032123142011-04-03T19:17:00.003-06:002011-04-03T19:24:04.851-06:00Is it Really Time to Intervene in Libya?by Christina Cerna, Organization of American States“As heartbreaking as watching the crushing of the civilian uprising in Libya on nightly television broadcasts may be, it is not genocide. Intervention was authorized to protect civilians but the West’s expressed goal of Gaddafi’s ouster goes beyond the language of the Security Council Resolution.”Shadi Hamid, in “It’s Time to Intervene,” suggestsHuman Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-71422156796462489942011-04-03T19:14:00.002-06:002011-04-03T19:17:07.743-06:00Feminism and Democracyby Louis Edgar Esparza, University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies“Broad coalition movements create the space for other issue groups to bring up their grievances, allowing them to frame them as issues of inequality within the movement. In Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, women are asserting their political rights as citizens in a polity as well as their rights in their positionsHuman Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-3699679944521661202011-04-03T19:09:00.002-06:002011-04-03T19:13:48.912-06:00I Will Surviveby Robert Funk, Institute for Public Affairs of the University of Chile“But if there is one thing that has been striking about the events in Libya in recent weeks—and indeed looking back over decades—it is the sheer ability of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to survive. He is, perhaps with Fidel Castro, the world’s greatest survivor.”“But I spent so many nightsthinking how you did me wrongI grew strongI Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-8085310366312084902011-04-03T18:59:00.002-06:002011-04-03T19:08:19.081-06:00We Do Indeed Reap What We Sowby Walter Lotze, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs“The international community is responsible for entrenching the Gaddafi regime both internationally and domestically, allowing it to exercise disproportionate levels of power, and providing it with the weaponry to back this power up within its own borders.”When violence first broke out in Tunisia in January 2011, few observers would Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-84907923951121344552011-03-01T20:28:00.004-07:002011-03-01T20:37:34.594-07:00February 2011: The Arab Revolutions and Human RightsEditor's Introduction“The Failure of Governance in the Arab World” by Simon Tisdall. The Guardian. January 11 2011.The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, the people’s rebellion in Egypt, and the subsequent popular uprisings that are taking place across the Arab world from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, remind us, scholars and policy makers alike, that order and stability must be based Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-89882136917580757252011-03-01T20:26:00.004-07:002011-03-01T20:37:47.862-07:00A Little Respect, Pleaseby Christina Cerna, Organization of American States“It was not just the humiliation of that one slap that made her son commit suicide. The slap was the culmination, symbolic of all the humiliations and indignities Mohamed and so many others have experienced daily. The humiliation of not being able to provide for themselves and their families and of not having basic human rights gave way to anger Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-57959909481565155792011-03-01T20:24:00.004-07:002011-03-01T20:37:58.985-07:00Abeyance and Spontaneity in Tunisiaby Louis Edgar Esparza, University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies“Although the precipitating event is rarely predictable, these kinds of events are almost never random…Tunisia and Egypt are not the exceptions, but rather, illustrate the rule: step on your people and one day they will step on you.”On August 16, 1819, tens of thousands of workers gathered in what is now St.Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-67965836903872495922011-03-01T20:22:00.004-07:002011-03-01T20:38:16.511-07:00He's Our Son of a Bitchby Robert Funk, Institute for Public Affairs of the University of Chile“It is said that Franklin Delano Roosevelt defended the US tendency to support dictators by remarking, ‘He may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch’. The recent events in Tunisia and Egypt indicate that almost seventy years later, this unfortunate phrase seems to continue to guide US foreign policy.”It is said thatHuman Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-51016313059656668322011-03-01T20:19:00.004-07:002011-03-01T20:36:45.832-07:00Those Pesky Winds of Change...by Walter Lotze, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs“Yet while analysts decry the failure of governance in the Arab world, and while countries such as the United States of America, France, and Great Britain self-confidently reinterpret their foreign policies to reassure observers that in fact they were never acting in support of despotic regimes, in Africa many diplomats and analysts areHuman Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-66708530880333066472011-01-15T13:23:00.004-07:002011-01-15T13:28:43.024-07:00January 2011: The Haiti Earthquake, One Year LaterEditor's Introduction“Haiti's Blame Game” by Poooja Bhatia. Foreign Policy. November 23 2010.An AnnotationThis week marks the one year anniversary of the earthquake that shook the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. This natural disaster threw an already impoverished nation into deeper social, economic, and even political distress. More than 230,000 people were killed, estimates are that a million Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-44061211501916446262011-01-15T13:15:00.003-07:002011-01-15T13:22:40.655-07:00The Scourge of Occupationby Christina Cerna, Organization of American States"Notably, MINUSTAH’s mandate does not contemplate substituting itself for the government of Haiti , so it should not be perceived as an occupying power as perhaps UNTAC or other UN missions might have been. MINUSTAH has no mandate to draft a constitution , adopt laws, conduct trials or perform any other governmental functions. So while elections Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-86689597881972449812011-01-15T13:05:00.003-07:002011-01-15T13:14:38.832-07:00Bring Back Aristideby Louis Edgar Esparza, University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies"It is that now, just as then, when others struggle to improve their own lives, foreign powers often intervene to stymie development, to exploit labor, or to extract resources. Recent events in Haiti illustrate this sad ontological reality of global relations that people around the world are working every Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-67698468006957883562011-01-15T12:58:00.005-07:002011-01-15T13:05:37.675-07:00Earthquakes and Expectations in Haiti and Chileby Robert Funk, Institute for Public Affairs of the University of Chile"Chile’s vast experience with earthquakes can teach Haitians that these events have long-lasting and often unintended consequences. They engrave images into the public consciousness and contribute to the creation of institutions that can survive for generations. Haitian officials and the international agencies charged with theHuman Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-41914782711634410892011-01-15T12:52:00.004-07:002011-01-15T13:04:44.565-07:00The Perils of Walking Fast and Walking Farby Walter Lotze, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs"For the next Haitian president, life will not be easy. He will need to be seen by the Haitian people to be far more assertive with the international community so present in the country without alienating the internationals that provide such critical support to Haitians who still remain in desperate need. If the balance is not struck Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-52795921104928980642010-11-30T13:23:00.006-07:002010-12-02T09:52:17.078-07:00November 2010: Multiculturalism and IntegrationEditor's Introduction“Germany's Integration Blinkers. What's So Bad About Parallel Societies?” by Henryk M. Broder, Spiegel Online, November 20, 2010“Angela Merkel: German Multiculturalism has Utterly Failed,” by Matthew Weaver, The Guardian, October 17, 2010 German Chancellor Angela Merkel made international headlines with her recent remarks that “multiculturalism has utterly failed.” Speaking Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-33415771382885492642010-11-30T13:20:00.003-07:002010-11-30T13:23:21.264-07:00Citizenship, Rights and Culture by Alison Brysk, University of California, Santa Barbara"(…) Beyond this, those of us who are American citizens have a special obligation to hold our own society to its rights-based citizenship ideals. Racial profiling in Arizona’s immigration law, proposals to change the 14th Amendment granting citizenship to all born in the US, and mosque-bashing at Ground Zero and beyond are all betrayals of Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-39143878080310874452010-11-30T13:17:00.002-07:002010-11-30T13:20:16.161-07:00European Identity Struggles in the Age of Austerity by Par Engstrom, University of London"Right-wing political parties have managed to capitalize on the failure of integration of recent immigrants in many European countries and the increasing visibility of “parallel societies.” However, it is certainly paradoxical in a time of economic crisis and austerity that the most controversial political debates in Europe today seem to revolve around Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-87378671393755069592010-11-30T13:14:00.002-07:002010-11-30T13:28:58.179-07:00Multiculturalism and the Struggle of National Normative Challengesby Marc Alexander C. Gionet, St. Thomas University"It may appear to be disordered and tensioned, but the existence of a multicultural society that is able to reasonably accommodate a vast spectrum of beliefs and practices without compromising normative values is possible. The functionality of such a society requires a high threshold of respect, education, and accessible mechanisms for conflict Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858792530953180152.post-45980126936273340132010-11-30T12:57:00.011-07:002010-11-30T13:17:31.521-07:00A Protection Post-Mortem on the "Death" of Multiculturalism in Germanyby Erin Mooney, Brookings Institution"Of course, it is one thing if immigrants choose, as is their right, to maintain strong links with their cultural heritage and community of origin, thereby co-existing in so-called “ parallel societies,” all the while participating in Germany’s economic and cultural development. However, it is another matter entirely when state policy and practice put legal, Human Rights and Human Welfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02181968740131075603noreply@blogger.com0