This collection of essays by David Little addresses human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted‎.‎ Featuring five original essays‎,‎ Little articulates his view that fascist practices before and during World War II vivified the wrongfulness of deliberately inflicting severe pain‎,‎ injury‎,‎ and destruction for self‎-serving purposes and that the human rights corpus‎,‎ developed in response‎,‎ was designed to outlaw all practices of arbitrary force‎.‎ He contends that while there must be an accountable human rights standard‎,‎ it should guarantee latitude for the expression and practice of beliefs‎,‎ consistent with outlawing arbitrary force‎.‎ Little details the theoretical grounds of the relationship between religion and human rights‎,‎ and concludes with essays on US policy and the restraint of force in regard to terrorism‎.‎ With a foreword by John Kelsay‎,‎ this book is a capstone of the work of this influential writer on religion‎,‎ philosophy‎,‎ and law‎.‎