Hand in Hand? Canada at the Human Rights and Peacebuilding Nexus
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This book includes contributions from both Canadian academics and civil society leaders. Drawing from critical international relations theory, it examines the policy and practice of the Canadian state and civil society on indigenous approaches to the emerging human rights and peacebuilding nexus. Authors address themes including foreign policy, inclusion, international justice and corporate accountability as they relate to this nexus. In so doing, the volume fills a gap in the Canadian foreign policy literature related to peacebuilding and human rights and seeks to refine and deepen the existing literature through its exploration of policy and practice. It concludes that while Canada has developed a strong capacity to address emergent human rights and peacebuilding concerns, its ambitions are inconsistent and often overshadowed by domestic political priorities, economic interests and security concerns.
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"This book tackles many neglected topics in Canadian foreign policy relating to the peacebuilding and human rights nexus. Its analysis reveals significant gaps between rhetoric and actual practices, and suggests some useful ways forward. Appealing to policymakers, practitioners, scholars and students, it deserves to be read hand in hand with more traditional texts on Canadian foreign policy." (Stephen Brown, Professor of Political Studies, University of Ottawa)
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Kirsten Van Houten was recently appointed as an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Justice and Global Stewardship at the University of the Fraser Valley. She edited this volume as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Live Work Well Research Centre at the University of Guelph.
Alex Neve is currently appointed to positions at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, and Faculties of Law, University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University. He is the former Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada and an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Content
Chapter 1. Introducing the Human Rights and Peacebuilding Nexus.- Chapter 2.Peacebuilding and Human Rights in Canadian Foreign Policy: Mutually Reinforcing or Ships.- chapter 3.Canada's human-rights-based responses to peacebuilding efforts in the context of mass.- Chaoter 4.Sustaining Partnerships: Canadian Civil Society and Foreign Policy at the Human Rights and.- Chapter 5.The Women, Peace and Security Agenda and Women's Rights.- chapter 6.Forced Displacement and Canada's Feminist Foreign Policy: What is missing?.- Chapter 7.The disconnect between Disability Rights and Canadian peacebuilding policy and practice: Mending the Gap.- Chapter 8.Why we need a global Children, Peace and Security Agenda.- Chapter 9.Undercut and Under-Addressed: the Right to Self-Determination and Its Importance for Canadian Foreign and Domestic Policies and Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa.- Chapter 10.Addressing Indigenous Rights Through Canadian ForeignPolicy.- Chapter 11. Indigenization of Canadian Foreign Policy: Beyond Tokenism.- Chapter 12.Canada's support for and utilization of international courts and tribunals as tools of international criminal justice.- Chapter 13.Rough beasts slouching toward Kigali: Canadian policy and action at the nexus of peacebuilding in human rights in post-genocide Rwanda.- Chapter 14.Canadian arms exports and the promotion of human rights.- Chapter 15.Canadian mining in the context of conflict, war, peacebuilding and reconstruction Emily Dwyer and Catherine Coumans, Mining Watch Canada.- Chapter 17.Conclusion.