Redefining Human Rights in the Struggle for Peace and Development

Examines the history of the struggle to advance human rights, end global poverty, and respect the sovereign integrity of States and governments throughout the Global South, providing a global framework to implement these rights. It argues that within this framework States will be obligated to formulate policies and programs to achieve peace and development throughout the global society.

Human rights in peace and development are accepted throughout the Global South as established, normative, and beyond debate. Only in the powerful elite sectors of the Global North have these rights been resisted and refuted. The policies and interests of these global forces are antithetical to advancing human rights, ending global poverty, and respecting the sovereign integrity of States and governments throughout the Global South. The link between poverty, war, and environmental degradation has become evident over the last 60 years, further augmenting international consciousness of these issues as interconnected with the rest of the human rights corpus. This book examines the history of this struggle and outlines practical means to implement these rights through a global framework of constitutional protections. Within this emerging framework, it argues that States will be increasingly obligated to formulate policies and programs to achieve peace and development throughout the global society.