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Human Rights and Climate Change : A
 Review of the International Legal DimensionsThe study includes a conceptual overview
 of the link between climate impacts and human rights,
 focused on the relevant legal obligations underpinning the
 international law frameworks governing both human rights and
 climate change. As such it makes a significant contribution
 to the global debate on climate change and human rights by
 offering a comprehensive analysis of the international legal
 dimensions of this intersection. The study helps advance an
 understanding of what is meant, in legal and policy terms,
 by the human rights impacts of climate change through
 examples of specific substantive rights. It gives a legal
 and theoretic perspective on the connection between human
 rights and climate change along three dimensions: first,
 human rights may affect the enjoyment of human rights.
 Second, measures to address human rights may impact the
 realization of rights and third, that human rights have
 potential relevance to policy and operational responses to
 climate change, and may promote resilience to climate
 change, including in developing countries in a way that may
 help sustainable development. This study effectively
 consolidates knowledge from the fields of international
 human rights law, international law governing climate change
 and international environmental law, building on the
 existing work of the United Nation (UN) office of the high
 commissioner on human rights, the UN human rights council
 and the international council on human rights policy.
 Although it maintains a legal focus, the study has benefited
 from the input of a host of international experts from other
 disciplines as well.
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Human Rights and Climate Change : A Review of the International Legal DimensionsThe study includes a conceptual overview of the link between climate impacts and human rights, focused on the relevant legal obligations underpinning the international law frameworks governing both human rights and climate change. As such it makes a significant contribution to the global debate on climate change and human rights by offering a comprehensive analysis of the international legal dimensions of this intersection. The study helps advance an understanding of what is meant, in legal and policy terms, by the human rights impacts of climate change through examples of specific substantive rights. It gives a legal and theoretic perspective on the connection between human rights and climate change along three dimensions: first, human rights may affect the enjoyment of human rights. Second, measures to address human rights may impact the realization of rights and third, that human rights have potential relevance to policy and operational responses to climate change, and may promote resilience to climate change, including in developing countries in a way that may help sustainable development. This study effectively consolidates knowledge from the fields of international human rights law, international law governing climate change and international environmental law, building on the existing work of the United Nation (UN) office of the high commissioner on human rights, the UN human rights council and the international council on human rights policy. Although it maintains a legal focus, the study has benefited from the input of a host of international experts from other disciplines as well.
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Peace Education: Exploring Some Philosophical FoundationsPeace education has been accepted as an important aspect of social education over the past three decades, although as yet there been little attention within the critical literature and within official documents towards developing and articulating philosophical foundations for peace education. This essay explores the possibility that such foundations might be located within 1) virtue ethics, 2) consequentialist ethics, 3) aesthetic ethics, 4) conservative political ethics, and 5) the ethics of care. Each of the above is important, although ultimately a thorough basis for peace education can only be established through an integrative approach to the above foundations, an approach that mirrors much of the emphasis within UN and UNESCO initiatives to encourage a culture of peace. The importance of peace education is often accepted as given by those committed to peace education, although the development and articulation of the philosophical rationale for peace education remains an important task for the future.