Aug 11, 2021On considerations of cultural relativism in human rights documentsThe United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) stands as one of the most important human rights documents in recent history. It has achieved wide global acceptance, and its legacy is such that nearly all modern human rights documents have developed upon its framework. There are criticisms, however, of…Anthropology9 min readAnthropology9 min read
Aug 9, 2021Moving past a myopic view of war & peaceScholarship in the field of peace and conflict studies has, for much of its history, been primarily concerned with questions regarding what Johan Galtung called negative peace, which he defined as the absence of war: what it is, how to accomplish it, et cetera. Negative peace, in this myopic view…Peace10 min readPeace10 min read