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Traditional approaches to teaching, researching, and advancing human rights need a refresh. The Sustainable Development Goals, the Leave No One Behind ethos, and the SDG16 agenda for peaceful, just, and inclusive communities offer a refreshed way to research and teach human rights and social justice in the twenty first century.
Exploring how to ground an emerging paradigm shift and field build the next generation so that they approach human rights with a different lens and set of skills, this edited collection presents local case studies from cities and communities and considers their meaning for the rights movement globally. Emphasizing the need to reduce silos between domestic and international work, the chapters build on local “right to the city” activism and the global human rights cities movement to examine a local-global approach informed by city-level data, analyses, and practice.
Higher Education and the Sustainable Development Goals is a series of 17 books that address each of the SDGs through the lens of higher education. Adopting a solutions-based approach, each book focuses on how higher education is advancing delivery of Agenda 2030. The series is edited by Wendy Purcell, Professor with Rutgers University and Academic Research Scholar with Harvard University; Emeritus Professor and University President Emerita.
Sarah Mendelson and her collaborators make a compelling case for the Sustainable Development Goals as a promising project for re-energizing progress on social justice, economic development, and human rights. In their vision, law remains a guiding standard, but the SDG approach puts law to work with a tool kit of community organization, operational know-how, and rigorously generated data. Academe has a central role to play in educating the new generation of principled pragmatists in the outlook, skills, and information they will need to boost rights and justice to a higher level.
Amb. Sarah E. Mendelson is Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, leading an initiative to create a Center for Sustainable Futures.
Chapter 1. Introduction: SDG 16, Higher Education, and the Benefits of New Approaches to Teaching and Researching Human Rights; Sarah E. Mendelson
Chapter 2. Closing Access to Justice Gaps Globally; Elizabeth Andersen
Chapter 3. Judicial institutions, SDGs, and the 2030 Agenda across Latin America and the Caribbean; Alvaro Herrero
Chapter 4 . The potential of Participatory and Experiential Learning for the Promotion of Human Rights and the SDGs; Thomas Probert
Chapter 5. Toward More Just Societies: The SDG Agenda and Innovations in Higher Education; Ariel C. Armony
Chapter 6. Between Localization and Realization: Partnerships toward Advancing Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals in Los Angeles; Gaea Morales, Anthony Tirado Chase, Michelle E. Anderson, and Sofia Gruskin
Chapter 7. Unjust Recovery in the Wake of the Pandemic and the Need to Reframe Human Rights Using the SDGs; Sarah E. Mendelson