Marie Luisa Frick: 3 books

Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions in human rights, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World.

This book argues that human rights cannot go global without going local. This important lesson from the winding debates on universalism and particularism raises intricate questions: what are human rights after all, given the dissent surrounding their foundations, content, and scope? What are legitimate...

Konflikte gehören zum Wesen der Politik, und Strategien erfolgreicher Konfliktlösungen charakterisieren die politische Arbeit. Dabei kann der Zwang zum Konsens das Politische verfehlen. Deshalb fragt eine Ethik des politischen Konfliktes nicht nur danach, wie Konflikte "gelöst" werden...