Development Aid with Reciprocity: A Response to Imperialism and the Politics of Global Coloniality

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-45
Author(s):  
Macleans A. Geo-Jaja ◽  
Suzanne Majhanovich
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Direct Relation ◽  
Developmental Pathway ◽  
Positive Approach ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Freedom Of Action

This position paper seeks to identify the undermining of freedom and human rights, juxtaposed through the narrative of “so much ill and so little good” (Easterly, 2006) regarding traditional aid and cooperation. The hardships currently constructed by linear frameworks leave no space for countries to define their own developmental pathway. The inherent ideology of current constructs neglects local initiatives and freedom of action and needs to endorse humanistic dialogue or a shift in approach, rather than a radical change of content. This paper proposes a hybridised approach as a means to “restoring culture” in development for Development Aid with Reciprocity ‐the deepening of human rights in every sphere of development and increasing the voice of people. It is contended that development aid for reciprocity in direct relation to the benefit of assistance to the countries in question would provide a most positive approach to development.

scholarly journals Clinical nutrition and human rights. An international position paper

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Cardenas ◽  
Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia ◽  
Juan B. Ochoa ◽  
Gil Hardy ◽  
Dolores Rodriguez-Ventimilla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Clinical Nutrition

Voice Pedagogy for the 21st Century: The Summation of Two Summits

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Amelia Rollings Bigler ◽  
Katherine Osborne ◽  
Chadley Ballantyne ◽  
Brian Horne ◽  
Kimberly James ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Group ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Voice Pedagogy ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Voice Teaching ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Ideal

The Voice Pedagogy Interest Group held its second summit in May 2018 to establish and recommend a logical curriculum that prepares and trains those entering the voice teaching profession with knowledge and skills needed to succeed. This position paper codifies the expanding competencies necessary for a 21st century teacher of singing and presents a vision of the ideal singing teacher’s education, experience, knowledge, and skill.

Bills of Rights and Decolonization

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parkinson Charles
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Overseas Territories

This book analyzes the British Government's radical change in policy during the late 1950s on the use of bills of rights in colonial territories nearing independence. More broadly it explores the political dimensions of securing the protection of human rights at independence and the peaceful transfer of power through constitutional means. This book fills a major gap in the literature on British and Commonwealth law, history, and politics by documenting how bills of rights became commonplace in Britain' s former overseas territories. It provides a detailed empirical account of the origins of the bills of rights in Britain's former colonial territories in Africa, the West Indies, and South East Asia as well as in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It sheds light on the development of legal systems at the point of gaining independence and raises questions about the colonial influence on the British legal establishment's change in attitude towards bills of rights in the late 20th century. It presents an alternative perspective on the end of Empire by focusing upon one aspect of constitutional decolonization and the importance of the local legal culture in determining each dependency's constitutional settlement and provides a series of empirical case studies on the incorporation of human rights instruments into domestic constitutions when negotiated between a state and its dependencies. More generally, this book highlights Britain's human rights legacy to its former Empire, and traces the genesis of the bills of rights of over thirty nations from the Commonwealth.

Mexico and the R2P Challenge: The Commitment Trap

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Arturo C. Sotomayor
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Country ◽  
Critical Case ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
International Commitments ◽  
Human Rights Norms ◽  
Critical Case Study

In recent years, Mexico has presented mostly favourable views of the R2P concept. This is a radical change, since historically it had been a strong advocate of non-intervention norms. This essay argues that Mexico’s R2P position has been shaped and constrained by two incoherent domestic narratives: democratization and the war on drugs. These two narratives have led to an inconsistent and ambiguous record of compliance with human rights norms and R2P principles. Mexican authorities, who had been championing for the implementation of R2P, have now become victims of their own international commitments. This Latin American country thus needs to reconcile its two distinct domestic agendas if it aims to be seen as an R2P advocate. The goal of this study is to explore the inherent complex and at times contradictory relationship between domestic demands for democratization and securitization and R2P commitments, using Mexico as a critical case study.

scholarly journals Hume’s Dynamic Coordination and International Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 009059172092183
Author(s):  
Carmen E. Pavel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
David Hume ◽  
International Security ◽  
State Autonomy ◽  
Dynamic Coordination ◽  
Freedom Of Action

At the heart of the tension between state autonomy and international law is the question of whether states should willingly restrict their freedom of action for the sake of international security, human rights, trade, communication, and the environment. David Hume offers surprising insights to answer this question. He argues that the same interests in cooperation arise among individuals as well as states and that their interactions should be regulated by the same principles. Drawing on his model of dynamic coordination, I will reconstruct the Humean case for developing international law into a more robust legal system and also highlight the limitation of Hume’s account of justice for such a reconstructive project. Hume’s lessons are enduring; we must strengthen the essential features of international law that allow states and individuals to reap the benefits of its protections, such as nonoptional rules that articulate a moral minimum, courts with compulsory jurisdiction, and stronger mechanisms of enforcement.

“Haitian Paradox” or Dark Side of the Security-Development Nexus? Canada’s Role in the Securitization of Haiti, 2004–2009

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Walby ◽  
Jeffrey Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Development ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ◽  
International Development Aid ◽  
Government Records ◽  
National Police

Drawing on analysis of government records obtained using Access to Information Act requests, the author examines the securitization of Canada’s aid program to Haiti between 2004 and 2009. The author discusses how Canadian agencies, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), and the Canadian International Development Agency, were involved in capacity-building initiatives that focused on police reform, border surveillance, and prison construction/refurbishment across Haiti in the aftermath of a coup that ousted the democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The author demonstrates how these efforts at securitization resulted in what officials referred to as the “Haitian Paradox,” whereby reorganization of the Haitian National Police force led to higher arrest rates and jail bloat, creating conditions that violated rather than ameliorated human rights. While the securitization project may have been based on the rule of law and human rights in Canadian policy makers’ official discourse, in practice these securitization efforts exacerbated jail overcrowding, distrust of police, and persecution of political opposition. The author therefore demonstrates one way that international development, aid, and criminal justice intersect, with emphasis on the transnational aspects of RCMP and CSC activities.

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