The United Nations General Assembly adopted a Decade for Human Rights Education which started in 1995 and lasted until 2004. With a resolution UN member states not only assured the adoption of the relevant human rights documents, but also to start educating their populations about the rights which every human being has simply through their humanity. This volume gives insights into the analysis of human rights education efforts, programmes, school curricula development and case studies in different European countries during the period of the UN Decade. Authors from different academic disciplines, various international organisations, and European NGOs focus on the consequences of human rights education on the life of vulnerable groups, in this case on ethnic and national minorities in Europe.
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Contents: Elena Ippoliti: Human Rights Education: Global Initiatives at the United Nations – Claudia Mahler/Anja Mihr/Reetta Toivanen: The UN Decade for Human Rights Education 1995-2004 and its Contribution to the Furtherance of the Rights of National Minorities in Europe – Paul Martin: Human Rights and the Academy – Audrey Osler: Human Rights Education and Education for Democratic Citizenship: Competing or Complimentary Agendas? – Carolyn Kissane: Turning Walls into Doors: Challenges and Opportunities for Human Rights Education – Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark: Education and Human Rights - Kind Intentions and Brutal Realities – Anja Mihr: The State, Politics and Human Rights Education During the UN Decade for Human Rights Education. The Case of Spain and Armenia – Sulev Valdmaa: Educating Citizens for Democracy - Changes in the Estonian Education System – Theresa Khorozyan: Democratic Reforms and Human Rights Education: Are the Education Reforms Directed to Shape New Democratic Political Culture in Armenia? – Reetta Toivanen: Sustainability of Human Rights and Minority Education – Theodore S. Orlin: Human Rights Law as a Paradigm for the Protection and Advancement of Minority Education in Europe – Inken Stern/Jana Luptáková: Human Rights Education and Roma in Slovakia – Claudia Mahler: Is Human Rights Education a Means of Supporting Minorities?
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9783631568071
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang AG
Vekt
280 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
206

Om bidragsyterne

The Editors: Claudia Mahler (Dr. iur.) is Senior Researcher at the Human Rights Centre, University of Potsdam. She is a jurist and has worked as an assistant at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, as Vice-President of the Human Rights Commission for Tirol and Vorarlberg, and as a lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin. Currently she is a consultant to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
Anja Mihr (Dr. phil.) is the Director of the European Master Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation, European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice. She is a political scientist and among others she worked as a researcher and lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin (2005-2006), Columbia University New York (2006) and at the UNESCO-Chair for Human Rights Education at the University of Magdeburg (2002-2004).
Reetta Toivanen (Dr. phil.) is currently a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism and at the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research, University of Helsinki. She is a social anthropologist and has previously worked as researcher at the Department for European Ethnology at Humboldt University Berlin (2004-2007), the Institute for Human Rights at Abo Akademi University (2001-2003), and at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (2000-2001).