peoplepill id: bonny-ibhawoh
BI
3 views today
3 views this week
The basics

Quick Facts

Gender
Male
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Bonny Ibhawoh is an author and professor of global human rights and African Studies at McMaster University. His scholarship includes studies in the history of human rights, the cultural relativism of human rights, the right to development and peace/conflict studies. He is the author of several books on African History, Human Rights and Peace & Conflict studies including Imperialism and Human Rights , and Imperial Justice: Africans in Empire’s Court, and Human Rights in Africa (Cambridge University Press). He is a contributor to the GIAZILO blog - a blog on “Human Rights, Social Justice and Peace.”

Ibhawoh is a critic of absolute cultural relativism in the interpretation of human rights norms. He has argued that the cultural relativist stance has been dominated by urban-based elites whose perception of "cultural legitimacy" focuses on the idealized and invented traditions of collectivism, definitive gender roles, and conservative patriarchy in the interpretation of moral values. Ibhawoh is a recipiet of the John Holland Award for Professional Archivement. Ibhawoh is a member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada.

Career

Ibhawoh began his academic career as a lecturer at Bendel State University, Nigeria (now, Ambrose Alli University). He has held faculty appointments at the University of Lagos and Covenant University in Nigeria, Brock University, Canada, and the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He was a Human Rights Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, New York, Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen and Associate Member of the Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Books

    The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
    Lists
    Bonny Ibhawoh is in following lists
    comments so far.
    Comments
    From our partners
    Sponsored
    Bonny Ibhawoh
    arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes