Contents -- Introduction: Embracing Paradox: Human Rights in the Global Age - Steve J. Stern and Scott Straus -- Part I. Who Makes Human Rights? -- 1. Human Rights History from the Ground Up: The Case of East Timor - Geoffrey Robinson -- 2. Rights on Display: Museums and Human Rights Claims - Bridget Conley-Zilkic -- 3. Civilian Agency in Times of Crisis: Lessons from Burundi - Meghan Foster Lynch -- Part II. Interrogating Classic Concepts -- 4. Consulting Survivors: Evidence from Cambodia, Northern Uganda, and Other Countries Affected by Mass Violence - Patrick Vinck and Phuong N. Pham -- 5. "Memoria, Verdad y Justicia": The Terrain of Post-Dictatorship Social Reconstruction and the Struggle for Human Rights in Argentina - Noa Vaisman -- 6. The Paradoxes of Accountability: Transitional Justice in Peru - Jo-Marie Burt -- Part III. New Horizons -- 7. The Aporias of New Technologies for Human Rights Activism - Fuyuki Kurasawa -- 8. The Human Right to Water in Rural India: Promises and Challenges - Philippe Cullet -- 9. A Very Promising Species: From Hobbes to the Human Right to Water - Richard P. Hiskes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.