Table of Contents

Human Rights and Peace: An Introduction - Ujjwal Kumar Singh
PART I: IDEAS AND VISIONS
Introduction - Anupama Roy
Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace - Director-General of UNESCO
In Life, In Death - Ranabir Samaddar
Archiving Disquiet: Feminist Praxis and the Nation-State - Uma Chakravarti
Democracy in Search of Dignity - Gopal Guru
On Liberation: Biography of a Consciousness - Manoranjan Mohanty
PART II: ENCOUNTERING UNDEMOCRATIC LAWS
Introduction - Bikram Jeet Batra
POTA and Beyond: The Silent Erosion - Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Gendered Face of Extraordinary Powers in North-East India - Paula Banerjee
Dalit Lynching at Dulina: Cow-Protection, Caste and Communalism - People′s Union for Democratic Rights
War in the Heart of India - Independent Citizens′ Initiative
Borders in the Mind, Bangladeshis: a Nowhere Policy for a Nowhere People - Pamela Philipose
PART III: RIGHTS MOVEMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS
Introduction - Ajay Gudavarthy
The Concept of Civil Liberties - Ram Manohar Lohia
Terrorism, State Terrorism and Democratic Rights - Randhir Singh
Human Rights Movement(s) in India: State, Civil Society and Beyond - Ajay Gudavarthy
Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab - Ram Narayan Kumar
The Punjab Mass Cremations Case: A Postscript - Ashok Aggarwal
National Human Rights Commissions and Internally Displaced Persons: The Sri Lankan Experience - Mario Gomes
Consolidated Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Ujjwal Kumar Singh is Reader, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has been a Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi (2002-2004), and taught earlier at Hindu College, Delhi University, and Panjab University, Chandigarh. Dr Singh has previously published Political Prisoners in India (1998, 2001). He has written and published extensively on laws and institutions, electoral governance and issues concerning democratic rights. He is currently engaged in editing a volume on Peace and Human Rights: Ideas, Institutions and Movements.

Reviews

Human Rights and Peace, fourth in the South Asian Peace Studies series, is a useful contribution to the expanding body of literature on the subject…This volume is a timely contribution, both to the theoretical literature on peace studies, and to empirical practices of civil liberties and human rights movements. It also has the potential to inform policy on the design and working of state institutions promoting rights and deepening democracy…This volume both catalogues and describes those multiple struggles, and locates them in the context of established concepts of human rights and peace.
*Pacific Affairs*

The book contains powerful accounts of the human rights challenges in the South Asian region; wars and conflicts, inter-ethnic disputes, the plight of displaced persons and the terror of extra-judicial killings and apparently state-sponsored violence.
*Peace and Conflict Studies: Journal of Peace Psychology*

This is a timely volume of essays, significant in the context of the present times of unprecedented turmoil and a stealthy erosion of the rights and liberties of an ever-increasing majority, who as the  editor rightly points out, continue to be rendered ‘ rightless’, even amidst an ever-expanding range of human rights instruments and laws. This collection of essays paints a broad canvas of the multifaceted interplay of rights and peace and underscores the inextricable link between the two.
*The Book Review*

This book is an insightful resource for students and researchers of peace studies, human rights, politics and international relations. It s also an invaluable idea bank for activists, think tanks and policy makers who seek to understand the evolving paradigm of peace and human rights.
*The Tribune*