Human Rights Education Beyond Universalism and Relativism: A Relational Hermeneutic for Global Justice

by Fuad Al-Daraweesh and Dale T. Snauwaert

Human Rights Education Beyond Universalism and Relativism transcends the long-standing debate concerning universalism and cultural relativism in the human rights discourse by offering a culturally-sensitive, freestanding conceptualization of human rights. Examining the conflict between universalism and relativism, one of the most controversial issues in the theory of human rights, Al-Daraweesh and Snauwaert ask the question: On what grounds can a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137471077
• ISBN13: 9781137471079
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"