Globalisation, Cultural Diversity and Human Rights, 2024 Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research Series, Vol. 44

This book analyses major discourses of cultural diversity and human rights. The chapters contained in this book examine critically major issues confronting cultural diversity and human rights, both locally and globally. They analyze the challenges that different societies are confronted with, as they attempt to implement, protect and defend cultural diversity and human rights in an ever-changing world, and culturally diverse environment. Topics covered include celebrating cultural diversity in sport, human rights legacies of the African slave trade and the long-term implications of colonialism, assessment of human rights and sports, effectiveness in intercultural dialogue in dominant discourses of cultural diversity and human rights, and the rising importance of cultural diversity and human rights in sport for children and youth.

This book will be helpful to readers to explore their own views and consider more broadly what may be in the best interests of a fair and just society, as envisioned in human rights treaties, human rights education in schools, and cultural diversity.

1. Globalisation, Cultural Diversity and Human Rights.- 2. Celebrating cultural diversity through sports for global peace and understanding.- 3. What is a child? Why conceptual, theoretical, and political considerations are important in a globalised world.- 4. Creating an international institution for the rehabilitation and reintegration of children involved in armed conflict.- 5. Human Rights legacies of the African slave trade and colonialism.- 6. The Horn of Africa: Where cultural diversity meets the quest for hegemony in the era of globalization.- 7. Globalization and conflicts: effectiveness of the international cultural dialogue.- 8. Destruction of Uyghur culture and identity in the shadows of the belt and road.- 9. Mandatory retirement and involuntary retirement: A social justice issue.- 10. The rising importance of human rights in sport for children and youth.- 11. Research trends in globalisation, cultural diversity and human rights.

Joseph Zajda is a Professor at the Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus). He specializes in globalization and education policy reforms, social justice, history education and values education. He has written and edited 45 books and over 150 book chapters and articles on globalization and education policy, higher education and curriculum reforms. He is also the Editor of the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research (Springer, 2009 & 2021). Recent publications include: Zajda, J (Ed). (2020a). Globalisation, ideology and neo-liberal higher education reform. Dordrecht: Springer. Zajda, J. (Ed). (2020b). Human rights education globally. Dordrecht: Springer. Zajda, J. (Ed). (2020c). Globalisation, Ideology and Education Reforms: Emerging paradigms. Dordrecht: Springer; Zajda, J. (2018). He is an Elected Fellow of the Australian College of Educators (FACE).

Yvonne Vissing, PhD, is a Professor of Healthcare Studies, focusing on health policy and public health, and the Founding Director of the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies at Salem State University.  She is the US policy chair for the Hope for Children Convention on the Child Policy Center in Cyprus, on the Steering Committee for Human Rights Educators USA, and is on the AAAS Human Rights Council.  Vissing is author of 17 books, including Children’s Human Rights in the USA: Challenge & Opportunities (Springer 2023), Changing the Paradigm of Homelessness (Routledge 2020), and The Rights of Unaccompanied Minors (Springer 2021).  A clinical sociologist, National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on child abuse and Whiting Foundation fellow studying child rights, she was also a Dialogue and Democracy fellow at UCONN’s Dodd Center for Human Rights.  She is a graduate of Equitas International Human Rights Training Program in Montreal. She is CEO of Training for Excellence.