Product Description
by Carrie Walling (Author)
Human rights is an empowering framework for understanding and addressing justice issues at local, domestic, and international levels. This book combines US-based case studies with examples from other regions of the world to explore important human rights themes - the equality, universality, and interdependence of human rights, the idea of international crimes, strategies of human rights change, and justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of human rights violations. From Flint and Minneapolis to Xinjiang and Mt. Sinjar, this book challenges a wide variety of readers - students, professors, activists, human rights professionals, and concerned citizens - to consider how human rights apply to their own lives and equip them to be changemakers in their own communities.
Author Biography
Carrie Booth Walling is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Director of the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Leadership in Public Policy and Service at Albion College. Her research interests are in human rights, international politics, transitional justice, and the United Nations. Walling is a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project and teaches for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program which brings incarcerated and non-incarcerated people together to study justice behind prison walls.
