This book critically examines the relationship between protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies. It explores the conditions that must be present, and strategies that should be adopted, for the former to contribute to the latter. The author argues tha…
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A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers a span of 2500 years, tracing how different cultures and societies have thought about, struggled for, developed and sustained peace in different ways and…
This set covers a span of 2500 years, tracing how different cultures and societies have thought about, struggled for, developed and sustained peace in different ways and at different times. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: definitions of peace; human nature…
Perhaps no author of the Latin Middle Ages has been the subject of so much controversy and even vitriol than Marsilius of Padua (ca. 1275-1342/43). As author of the notorious heretical tract, the Defensor Pacis, Marsilius became an infamous figure throughout the intellectual and…
Este libro traza las ideas que los intelectuales europeos (principalmente de Gran Bretaña, Francia, Alemania e Italia) propusieron para resolver el problema de la guerra durante la primera mitad del siglo XX: un período que comenzó con la guerra anglo-boer y terminó con la explo…
Este libro evalúa la construcción, funcionamiento y efectos del régimen de protección internacional para las personas defensoras de derechos humanos, el cual ha evolucionado significativamente en los últimos veinte años en respuesta a los riesgos que enfrentan las personas en la…
