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| Title | The Role of Academia in Human Rights Culture : A Swedish Perspective |
| Author/s | Andrea Karlsson, Linde Lindkvist |
| Department/s |
Human Rights studies
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| Full-text | Full text is not available in this archive |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| Pages | 10 |
| Pages | 1 - 10 |
| Document type | Conference |
| Conference name | The Role of Arab Universities in the Education, Practice and Promotion of Human Rights |
| Conference date | 2010-05-21 |
| Conference location | Notre Dame University, Beirut |
| Status | unpublished |
| Language | English |
| Abstract English |
In Sweden, the establishment of Human Rights Studies, comprising both education and research, is closely tied to an increasing emphasis on human rights principles in both foreign and domestic policy. We argue that as part of this developed human rights culture, the role of the academia is to critically analyze human rights discourses and practices which requires a constant evaluation of the concept itself and its historical and cultural embeddedness. After presenting a brief history of how human rights studies came to be an integral part of higher-education in Sweden, our paper moves to grapple with the current challenge of establishing a suitable relationship between academia and the wider human rights community. How should human rights scholars interact with activists? How do we establish a fruitful exchange of ideas between scholars from different human rights cultures? And how do we simultaneously improve our common understanding of the irreducible complexity inherent in the concept of human rights? |
| Subject |
Law and Political Science |
| Keywords | human rights education, human rights culture, human rights, mänskliga rättigheter |
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