Contemplative praxis for a healthier and more holistic human rights practice
June 17, 2026 Ivana Radačić, William Paul Simmons
This chapter explores how integrating contemplative praxis into the human rights field could transform the dominant separation paradigm of human rights, which is rooted in dualisms that separate political from spiritual, individual from community, and humans from nature. Drawing on feminist, Indigenous, and decolonial thought and empirical research on the mental health of human rights...