Introduction. Embracing paradox: human rights in a global age / Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus
Part I. Who makes human rights?
Human rights history from the ground up: the case of East Timor / Geoff Robinson
Rights on display: museums and human rights claims / Bridget Conley-Zilkic
Civilian agency in times of crisis: lessons from Burundi / Meghan Foster Lynch
Part II. Interrogating classic concepts
Consulting survivors: evidence from Cambodia, northern Uganda, and other countries affected by mass violence / Patrick Vinck and Phuong Pham
"Memoria, verdad y justicia": the terrain of post-dictatorship social reconstruction and the struggle for human rights in Argentina / Noa Vaisman
Rethinking transitional justice: reflections on the paradoxes of accountability efforts in Peru / Jo-Marie Burt
Part III. New horizons
The aporias of new technologies for human rights activism / Fuyuki Kurasawa
The human right to water in rural India: promises and challenges / Philippe Cullet
A very promising species: from Hobbes to the human right to water / Richard P. Hiskes.
The human rights paradox : universality and its discontents. ISBN 9780299299743. Published by The University of Wisconsin Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.