CULS230 | DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

This course endeavors to introduce students to the fundamental concepts and issues in democracy, human rights and international humanitarian law. It hopes to raise the students’ awareness to their democratic and human rights and encourage them to participate actively in the ongoing political and intellectual debates tackling the problematics and limitations embedded in such rights. It also aims at encouraging students to react critically to the issues related to the implementation of democracy, human rights and international humanitarian law especially in light of the hegemony of the foreign policies of the industrially advanced countries and the contradictions and inconsistencies that follow from such policies and their negative and damaging impact on third world countries