THE FRAGMENTED FUTURES OF HUMAN-RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY - A REVIEW OF RECENT LITERATURE

A wide spectrum of recent futures-oriented, English-language literatur e on human rights and democracy is surveyed. Human rights and democrac y are seldom mentioned together, and the literature on each of these t wo important concerns is profoundly fragmented. An appreciative framew ork for integrative thinking is created here. The future of both human rights and democracy is found to be profoundly ambiguous, with many t hreats and opportunities. Looking at all of them through a broad overv iew could hasten the progress of democracy and human rights, or retard decay.