Conclusion

Abstract

The aim of this book was to find a compromising ground between two hard-lined schools of thought on human rights: universalism and cultural relativism. In this book we offer a third conceptualization of human rights, based upon a freestanding normative universalism (a cross-cultural overlapping human rights consensus—fusion of horizons) and epistemological relationalism. Relationalism is informed by the recognition of the importance of global human rights dissemination, seeking, at the same time, to preserve the cultural, political, social, and psychological autonomy of the population, whereby such dissemination is to occur.