54001. Controversies on the Universality of Human Rights and the Conditionality of Aid
- Author:
- Franz Nuscheler
- Publication Date:
- 12-1997
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Institute for Development and Peace
- Abstract:
- What is the reaction of human rights groups and academic scholars from Asia, who cannot be suspected of engaging in Western "cultural imperialism," to the challenge of "Asian values"? This INEF-Report includes the following papers: two papers presented by Sri Lankan scholars to an international conference in Colombo organized by the Goethe-Institute and the Sri Lanka Foundation; a paper by a political scientist from the Philippines read at the University of Druisburg in summer 1997; a paper on the conditionality of foreign aid presented by the editor of this INEF-Report to the above-mentioned international conference in Colombo, which was a fine example of an intercultural dialogue.
- Topic:
- Human Rights, Foreign Aid, Authoritarianism, Conditionality, and Universality
- Political Geography:
- South Asia, Philippines, and Sri Lanka