Conflict Resolution, Human Rights and Democracy

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/Lakhan Mehrotra. 2. The Indian perspective/Subhash C. Kashyap. 3. Democracy, human rights and conflict resolutions/Marlene Lenz. 4. Democracy and co-existence of civilisations/S.K. Chaube. 5. Emerging threats to democracy/Madhav Godbole. 6. Democracy as global entitlement: a cross-national analysis of citizen perception of democracy/Sandeep Shastri. 7. Human rights revolution: global challenges to democracy/R.P. Dhokalia. 8. The role of the United Nations: the case of Cambodia/Lakhan Mehrotra. 9. Human rights and terrorism/Partha S. Ghosh. 10. Conflict resolution: the contribution of democracy and human rights/S.D. Muni. 11. Conflict resolution as a pre-requisite for regional cooperation and development/Mahendra P. Lama. 12. External inputs in conflict generation and conflict resolution/Subhash Kapila. 13. Human rights and genetic revolution/Ram C. Mehrotra. Index.

It is necessary to discuss fundamental changes in human society today and increasing need for new approaches concerning issues of the proper functioning of democracy, respect for human rights and dignity, peace, security, development and social studies.

The book contains contributions of some of the outstanding scholars and thinkers on human rights and conflict resolution and its association with democracy. An in-depth analysis of the needs of future and the imperatives of democracy and suggestions pertaining to ways and means of promoting democratic culture; minimal conditions that the politics of the country must meet in order to make political democracy functional are focussed. (jacket)