Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required readings- book chapters

1. B?RD A. ANDREASSEN AND STEPHEN P. MARKS (eds.). Development as a Human Rights. Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions. Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010. 2nd edition. Chapters [207 pp]:

Introduction

  • Chapter 1: Sen. Human Rights and Development
  • Chapter 2: Sengupta, The Human Right to Development
  • Chapter 4: Marks. Obligations to Implement the Right to Development
  • Chapter 5: Beetham. The Right to Development and Its Corresponding Obligations
  • Chapter 7: Andreassen. Development and Human Rights Responsibilities of Non-state Actors
  • Chapter 10: Malhotra. Towards Implementing the Right to development: A Framework for Indicators and Monitoring Methods
  • Chapter 12: Osmani: Globalization and the Right to Development: Background and Progress
  • Chapter 13: Scheinin: Advocating the Right to Development through Complaint Procedures Under Human Rights Treaties
  • Chapter 14: Skogly: The Role of International Financial Institutions in a Rights-based Approach to the Process of Development

2. DAN BANIK (ed). Poverty, Politics and Development. Oslo: Fagbokforlaget, 2006. [92 pp]

  • Chapter 2 B. Bull, Development Theory Revisited.
  • Chapter 13 Andreassen, The Human Rights and Development Nexus: From Rights Talk to Rights Practices.

3. DAN BANIK. Poverty and Elusive Development. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2010. Chapters 1, 4 and 5 (78 pp).

3. AMARTYA SEN. Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books (1999). [109 pp.]

  • Introduction and chapters 1-4.

4. HENRY J. STEINER, PHILIP ALSTON and RYAN GOODMAN. International Human Rights in Context. Law, Politics, Morals. Oxford, Oxford University Press, Third Edition, 2008. Chapters 15 A, 15 C and 16 A-C. [69 pp.]

Required readings: Chapters and articles online

5. ALSTON, PHILIP, “Ships Passing in the Night: The Current State of the Human Rights and Development Debate seen through the Lens of the Millennium Development Goals” in Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 27, 3 (2005). [75 pp.]

http://www.swetswise.com/eAccess/viewToc.do?titleID=94686&yevoID=1693527

6. Hannah Miller. “From ‘rights-based’ to ‘rights-framed’ approaches: a social constructionist view of human rights practice” in The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol 14, No. 6, November 2010, 915-931. [15 pp.]

http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/resources/publications.html

7. Office of the UN Commissioner of Human Rights Principles and Guidelines for a Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategies. Pp. 1-49. [49 pp.] http://www2.ohchr.org/SPdocs/Claiming_MDGs_en.pdf

8. Making the Law Work for Everyone. Report of the COMMISSION ON THE LEGAL EMPOWERMENT OF THE POOR Volume 1, pp 1-39 [39 pp.]

http://www.undp.org/legalempowerment/report/index.html

9. United Nations Development Program. Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals. Making the Link. UNDP Governance Centre, 2009 [29pp.]

http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/resources/publications.html

Required readings: Chapters and articles in compendium

The compilation of text (compendium) can be bought in the bookstore Gnist Akademika (at the Law Faculty).

10. DAN BANIK (ed.). Rights and Legal Empowerment in Eradicating Poverty. Farnham: Ashgate, 2008. Chapters 1-2, pp 1-47 [47pp.]

11. SIMON CANEY. “Climate change, human rights and moral thresholds” in STEPHEN HUMPHREYS, (ed). Human Rights and Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2010). [22 pp.]

12. GREADY, PAUL AND JONATHAN ENSOR (eds.). Reinventing Development? Translating Rights-based Approaches from theory into practice. London: Zed Books, 2005.

Chapters: Introduction Chapter 1 Jonsson, Urban. “A human rights-based approach to programming”. Chapter 2 Brouwer, Marjolein et al, “The Experience of Oxfam International and its affiliates in rights-based programming and campaigning. Chapter 3, Jones, Andrew. “The case of CARE International in Rwanda”. Chapter 4 Okille, Pamela Achanut. “Rights in practice – assessing the impact of rights-based training in Uganda.”[107 pp]

13. STEPHEN HUMPHREYS. “Competing claims: human rights and climate harms” in STEPHEN HUMPHREYS, (ed). Human Rights and Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2010). [22 pp]

14. POGGE, THOMAS. World Poverty and Human Rights. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002. Chapter 1 and 2. [53 pp.]

Total: 1.132 pages.

Additional reading (recommended)

ANDREASSEN, B?RD ANDERS “Development, Capabilities, Rights: What is New About the Right to Development and a Rights Approach to Development? In Morten Bergsmo (ed.), Human Rights and Criminal Justice for the Downtrodden: Essays in Honour of Asbj?rn Eide. Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (2003). [23 pp.]

ARCE, ALBERTO AND NORMAN LONG "Bridging Two Worlds: An Ethnography of Bureaucrat-peasant Relations in Western Mexico.” In Mark Hobart (ed.), An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance. London: Routledge (1993). Pp. 179-208. [29 pp.]

BEITZ, CHARLES Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton University Press (1979). Part Three (“International Distributive Justice”) and Conclusion. [60 pp.]

GRILLO, R.D. “Discourses of Development: The View from Anthropology.” In R.D. Grillo and R.L. Stirrat (eds.), Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives. Oxford: Berg Publishers (1997). Pp. 1-33. [32 pp.]

LEYS, COLIN. The Rise & Fall of Development Theory. Oxford: James Currey, Ltd. (1996). Pp. 3-44. [42 pp.]

MOENE, KARL OVE & MICHAEL WALERSTEIN Social Democracy as a Development Strategy. Unpublished (2002). Pp. 1-29. [29 pp.]

MOSSE, DAVID “The Ideology and Politics of Community Participation: Tank Irrigation Development in Colonial and Contemporary Tamil Nadu.” In R.D. Grillo and R.L. Stirrat (eds.), Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives. Oxford: Berg Publishers (1997). Pp. 255-291. [36 pp.]

NUSSBAUM, Martha C. Creating Capabilities. The Human Development Approach. Camebridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

RABO, ANNIKA “Gender, State and Civil Society in Jordan and Syria. In Chris Hann and Elizabeth Dunn (eds.), Civil society. Challenging Western Models. London: Routledge (1996). Pp. 155-177. [22 pp.]

SENGUPTA, ARJUN K. Third Report of the Independent Expert on the Right to Development. UN Doc. E/CN.4/1999/WG.18.2. [21 pp.] On THE UN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, see http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/

Notice: This syllabus may be subject to smaller changes in consultation with lecturers.

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