Goh Bee Chen - Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices and Contexts

Theories, Practices and Contexts

GOH BEE CHEN

BADEN OFFORD

ROB GARBUTT

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing

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Activating human rights and peace : theories, practices and contexts.

1. Human rights. 2. Human rights advocacy.

I. Goh, Bee Chen. II. Offord, Baden, 1958- III. Garbutt, Rob, 1961-323-dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Activating human rights and peace : theories, practices and contexts / edited by Goh Bee Chen, Baden Offord and Rob Garbutt.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-3076-6 (hardback) 1. Human rights. 2. Peace. 3. Peace-building. 4. Human rights--Study and teaching. 5. Peace--Study and teaching. 6. Peace-building--Study and teaching. I. Goh, Bee Chen. II. Offord, Baden, 1958- III. Garbutt, Rob, 1961

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After 36 years as an academic, Dr Bagshaw is now an adjunct Associate Professor at the University of South Australia (UniSA) where she was previously a Head of School, Director of Postgraduate Studies, Research Portfolio Leader and Program Director for the Masters/Graduate Diploma in Mediation and Conflict Resolution and the Doctor of Human Service Research in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy. From 1993 to 2009 she was also the Director of the Centre for Peace, Conflict and Mediation. In 2010, Dale was also appointed as an Adjunct Professor with the School of Law and Business at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. At the 10th National Mediation Conference Dale was dubbed the grandmother of mediation in Australia. She was the inaugural Chair of the South Australian Dispute Resolution Association, President and Vice President of the World Mediation Forum and President of the Asia Pacific Mediation Forum since it began in 2001. She has led many research projects, chaired and participated on three national councils advisory to the Australian Government, published internationally in many peer reviewed books and journals, is on the International Editorial Board for the Conflict Resolution Quarterly and is a reviewer for a number of other prominent journals. In her semi-retirement she also supervises PhD students, conducts research and consultancies, and is a keynote speaker at many international conferences.

Dr Riccardo Baldissone was born in Rome, Italy, in 1959. His formal education covers Classical Studies, Science, Philosophy and Education. He taught and conducted pedagogical laboratories in Italy for a decade, before researching and travelling all around the world. Riccardo is currently a researcher in the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. His last major completed project was an attempt to rethink both human rights discourse and the modern conceptual framework in which it is embedded. Riccardo is now addressing Western thoughts denial of multiplicity. In particular, he is focusing on the Platonic constitution of conceptual discourse, and on the construction of a genealogy of thinkers (Stirner, Nietzsche, Derrida, Deleuze), who articulated the transcending of the conceptual horizon. His third line of research is the exploration of Roman law as the expression of analogical logic, as opposed to the logic of identity that grounded Western ontological, theological and naturalistic frameworks.

Dr Lynda-ann Blanchard is a Lecturer and the Research Coordinator at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, Australia. She is former executive officer of the Sydney Peace Foundation, executive member of the National Committee on Human Rights Education, executive member of the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism (Australia), international member of TRANSCEND Peace and Development Network, and consultant to the Conflict Resolution Network. She is co-editor of Ending War, Building Peace (2009), Managing Creatively: Human Agendas from Changing Times (1996) and has collaborated on Human Rights Corporate Responsibility: A Dialogue (2000), Indigenous People and the Law in Australia (1995) and Women, Male Violence and the Law (1994).

Linda Briskman is Professor of Human Right at Swinburne Universitys Institute for Social Research. Until early 2012, she held the position of Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights at Curtin University. Originally from a social work background, her main areas of practice, policy and research are Indigenous rights and asylum seeker rights and she has published extensively in both areas. The co-authored Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia won the 2008 Australian Human Rights Commission award for literature (non-fiction). She is a regular visitor to remote detention centres.

Professor Clements is the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the New Zealand National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association. Prior to taking up these positions he was the Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His career has been a combination of academic analysis and practice in the areas of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Professor Clements has been a regular consultant to a variety of non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations on disarmament, arms control, conflict resolution, development and regional security issues. He has written or edited seven books and over 150 chapters/articles on conflict transformation, peacebuilding, preventive diplomacy and development with a specific focus on the Asia Pacific region.