Creating a Human Rights Culture

Website for Dr. Joseph Wronka
Professor of Social Work, Springfield College, Massachusetts USA
Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva for the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)
Fulbright Scholar in Social Justice, Poverty, and Human Rights

(Please note: This website is still under construction. It should be fully functional after Spring Break, March 19, 2012.  I hope, however, that you will find some of its contents at this time useful. Please come back. Thank you for your interest in human rights and social justice)

 Select Author's Works 

 
    
Letter to the Editor in the New York Times, January 4, 2012, Sunday Dialogue:  Do We Live in a Less Deadly Time or not?


Festschrift: Essays in Honor of Dr. David Gil at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Heller School at Brandeis University, October 2009.

If you would like further information and/or social actions to create a human rights culture, you may wish to consider my latest book, Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions (Sage, 2008).  It also consists of an Instructor's Manual available at the Sage Website.
 
A previous work is
Human Rights and Social Policy in the 21st Century: A History of the Idea of Human Rights and Comparison of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights with United States Federal and State Constitutions (University Press of America, 1998)

Presentation on Peace, Security and Human Rights at the UN in Geneva, event sponsored by the International Human Rights Association of American Minorities and the Center for Human Rights, Brussels, Belgium, March 2011.

Here is an article pertaining to the human rights situation in the United States, A Little Humility, Please, Harvard International Review, Summer, 1998

"Science" and Indigenous Cultures," Humanistic Psychologist, March 1993.