Combining firsthand ethnographic reportage with historical research, Human Rights as War by Other Means traces the use of rights discourse in Northern Ireland's politics from the local civil rights campaigns of the 1960s to present-day activism for truth recovery and LGBT equality.
Jennifer Curtis is an honorary fellow in social anthropology at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.
"Human Rights as War by Other Means: Peace Politics in Northern
Ireland offers an important contribution to the literature on
Northern Ireland by providing a rich descriptions of rights-based
activism in Belfast from the 1960s to present. . . . Curtis's
critique of rights activism is timely and offers a fitting reproach
of the contemporary narrative about human rights that emerged as
part of the peace process."
*International Journal on World Peace*
"The premise of this book is excellent, original, and significant.
Jennifer Curtis makes an important contribution to an understanding
of the peace process and in particular of the hidden roles played
so often by civil society in forging social change."
*Michael O'Flaherty, University of Ireland, Galway*
"This is one of the most sustained, persuasive, and comprehensive
analyses of the progress of the Northern Ireland peace process
since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998."
*Hastings Donnan, Queen's University, Belfast*
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