Peter Uvin links human rights with development theory and practice to show how practitioners can surmount tough obstacles to successfully effect strategies for reducing conflict and improving human rights outcomes.
Peter Uvin is vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty at Claremont McKenna College. He is author of Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Africa, winner of the African Studies Association's Herskovitz Award.
"Digs beneath the rhetoric to explore the hard choices. Theoretically cogent and relevant to policies and programming—as well as clearly and entertainingly written—Uvin’s analysis is a seminal contribution to the field."—Alex de Waal, Justice Africa
"Advances an analysis of the need to effect social change at a global level and advocates a rights-based approach to economic development."—Reference and Research Book News
