With this issue, the Journal of Human Rights Practice celebrates its tenth anniversary. There are plenty of academic journals in the human rights field, but still none that fill the gap that our founding editors, Brian Phillips and Paul Gready, identified in 2009. It seemed to them then—and seems to us still—that there was a place for sustained critical reflection on the practice of human rights and, in particular, the interface between human rights and the academic world. ‘Human rights’ seemed to exist in two separate and parallel universes, one theoretical and predominantly legal, the other quotidian and pragmatic. Yet the two worlds are clearly connected: the editors of the Journal in 2009 and today have all crossed back and forth between the academic and activist spheres in a way that no longer seems unusual. In 2009, we set ourselves a number of tasks. The relationship between academia and human rights practice seemed to be shifting away from debates about the intellectual validity of human rights as a way of framing the world towards an exploration of implementation: do human rights make a difference in practice? (No coincidence that Brian’s academic home at the time was the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes University and Paul’s the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York.) This focus on implementation also seemed to imply steps towards an interdisciplinary approach and away from the stranglehold of law and international relations. It implied a focus on relatively neglected issues, especially in the field of economic and social rights, and actors, such as persons with disabilities. Both practice and practitioners have been interpreted in a capacious and inclusive manner. Brian and Paul’s editorial in the first issue contained a very long list of potential practitioners for whom the Journal was intended as a platform for debate:

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周年刊前言

《人权实践杂志》用这个问题庆祝其成立十周年。人权领域有很多学术期刊，但仍然没有一个能填补我们的创始编辑布赖恩菲利普斯和保罗格雷迪在 2009 年确定的空白。当时在他们看来——在我们看来仍然如此——有一个对人权实践，特别是人权与学术界之间的联系进行持续批判性反思的地方。“人权”似乎存在于两个独立且平行的世界中，一个是理论上的，主要是法律的，另一个是日常的和实用的。然而，这两个世界显然是联系在一起的：2009 年和今天的《华尔街日报》的编辑们都以一种不再罕见的方式在学术领域和激进主义领域之间来回穿梭。在2009年，我们为自己设定了一些任务。学术界与人权实践之间的关系似乎正在从关于人权作为构建世界的一种方式的智力有效性的辩论转向对实施的探索：人权在实践中是否有所作为？（当时布赖恩的学术中心是牛津布鲁克斯大学的发展和紧急实践中心，而保罗则是约克大学的应用人权中心，这并非巧合。）这种对实施的关注似乎也意味着迈向跨学科方法的步骤远离法律和国际关系的束缚。它意味着将重点放在相对被忽视的问题上，尤其是在经济和社会权利领域，以及行动者，例如残疾人。实践和从业者都以广泛和包容的方式进行了解释。布赖恩和保罗在第一期的社论中包含了一份很长的潜在从业者名单，该杂志旨在为他们提供一个辩论平台：