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Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man. But today human rights and religion are sometimes in conflict. The universal claims made for rights can put them at odds with the revealed truths from which religions derive their authority. Many people's sense of human worth and dignity nevertheless depends on recognising the divine in each of us. Where rights and revelation diverge, how can the differences be negotiated? How should we measure individual claims to freedom against the demands of religious traditions? In this volume, eminent theologians and anthropologists set out the terms of religion's holds on its own truths, while historians, philosophers, and activists set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence. Their respondents join the debate with fierce conviction, indicating their doubts and concerns in relation to the often compatible but sometimes competing claims of religion and rights.

Human rights --- Religious tolerance. --- Religious aspects. --- American slave communities. --- Christian experience. --- Islam. --- Oxford Amnesty Lectures. --- Pentecost. --- Roman Catholic tradition. --- Simon Schama. --- United States. --- Western liberal democracy. --- biblical inspiration. --- civil rights movement. --- human religion. --- human rights. --- moral progress. --- pluralism. --- universalisation.

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Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger's provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s. Berger analyzes many of these famous images-dogs and fire hoses turned against peaceful black marchers in Birmingham, tear gas and clubs wielded against voting-rights marchers in Selma-and argues that because white sympathy was dependent on photographs of powerless blacks, these unforgettable pictures undermined efforts to enact-or even imagine-reforms that threatened to upend the racial balance of power.

Civil rights movements --- White people --- African Americans --- Photography --- Documentary photography --- Photojournalism --- History --- Attitudes --- Civil rights --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- United States --- Race relations --- 1960s. --- african american. --- america. --- american history. --- balance of power. --- birmingham. --- black experience. --- black protesters. --- civil rights legislation. --- civil rights movement. --- civil rights. --- critical analysis. --- historians. --- historical. --- iconic photographs. --- nonfiction. --- photograph analysis. --- photographers. --- photography. --- racial issues. --- racial reform. --- racism. --- retrospective. --- selma. --- social history. --- social justice. --- social theory. --- us history. --- voting rights. --- white sympathy.

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The wave of ethnic conflict that has recently swept across parts of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Africa has led many political observers to fear that these conflicts are contagious. Initial outbreaks in such places as Bosnia, Chechnya, and Rwanda, if not contained, appear capable of setting off epidemics of catastrophic proportions. In this volume, David Lake and Donald Rothchild have organized an ambitious, sophisticated exploration of both the origins and spread of ethnic conflict, one that will be useful to policymakers and theorists alike. The editors and contributors argue that ethnic conflict is not caused directly by intergroup differences or centuries-old feuds and that the collapse of the Soviet Union did not simply uncork ethnic passions long suppressed. They look instead at how anxieties over security, competition for resources, breakdown in communication with the government, and the inability to make enduring commitments lead ethnic groups into conflict, and they consider the strategic interactions that underlie ethnic conflict and its effective management. How, why, and when do ethnic conflicts either diffuse by precipitating similar conflicts elsewhere or escalate by bringing in outside parties? How can such transnational ethnic conflicts best be managed? Following an introduction by the editors, which lays a strong theoretical foundation for approaching these questions, Timur Kuran, Stuart Hill, Donald Rothchild, Colin Cameron, Will H. Moore, and David R. Davis examine the diffusion of ideas across national borders and ethnic alliances. Without disputing that conflict can spread, James D. Fearon, Stephen M. Saideman, Sandra Halperin, and Paula Garb argue that ethnic conflict today is primarily a local phenomenon and that it is breaking out in many places simultaneously for similar but largely independent reasons. Stephen D. Krasner, Daniel T. Froats, Cynthia S. Kaplan, Edmond J. Keller, Bruce W. Jentleson, and I. William Zartman focus on the management of transnational ethnic conflicts and emphasize the importance of domestic confidence-building measures, international intervention, and preventive diplomacy.

1989 --- -World politics. --- Svetovna politika. --- Rights. --- Pravice. --- International relations. --- Mednarodni odnosi. --- Ethnic relations. --- Etnični odnosi. --- Ethnic conflicts. --- Etnični konflikti. --- American civil rights movement. --- Autonomous Republics. --- Balkans. --- Barre, Siad. --- Boutros-Ghali, Boutros. --- Burundi. --- Cameron, Colin. --- Caucasian idea. --- Dayton Peace Agreement. --- Durbin-Watson statistics. --- ECOMOG. --- Eritrea. --- Ethiopia. --- Fearon, James D. --- Garb, Paula. --- Glenny, Misha. --- Halperin, Sandra. --- Herzegovina. --- Ingush. --- Jewish minorities. --- Kosovo province. --- Kurds. --- Lebanon. --- Nigeria. --- Ottoman Empire. --- affirmative action. --- chief governmental officer (CGO). --- cooperation. --- developmentalist diplomacy. --- ethnic outbidding. --- ethnification. --- foreign workers. --- human rights. --- identity principles. --- mediation. --- national activists. --- political entrepreneurs.