Dina Kiwan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, since September 2012, and formerly a Senior Lecturer in Citizenship Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and co-director of the International Centre for Education for Democratic Citizenship (ICEDC), University of London, UK. Other publications include Kiwan, D. (2008). Education for Inclusive Citizenship (Routledge), and Kiwan, D. (ed). (2013) Naturalization Policies, Education and Citizenship: Multicultural and Multination Societies in International Perspective.

• 1. Introduction: Human rights and citizenship education: re-positioning the debate Dina Kiwan 2. Cosmopolitan democracy: a restatement Daniele Archibugi 3. Human rights, cosmopolitanism and utopias: implications for citizenship education Hugh Starkey 4. Being human or being a citizen? Rethinking human rights and citizenship education in the light of Agamben and Merleau-Ponty Ruyu Hung 5. Human rights and public education Bill Bowring 6. Human rights within education: assessing the justifications Tristan McCowan 7. Human rights education in Japan: an historical account, characteristics and suggestions for a better-balanced approach Sachiko Takeda 8. Human rights, education for democratic citizenship and international organisations: findings from a Kuwaiti UNESCO ASPnet school Rania Al-Nakib