Protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies
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Bibliographic Information
Protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies
(Human rights law in perspective / general editor, Colin Harvey, v. 25)
Hart, 2020
- : hardback
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-238) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book critically examines the relationship between protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies. It explores the conditions that must be present, and strategies that should be adopted, for the former to contribute to the latter. The author argues that human rights can aid peacebuilding efforts by helping victims of past violence to articulate their grievance, and by encouraging the state to respond to and provide them with a meaningful remedy. This usually happens either through a process of adjudication, whereby human rights can offer guidance to the judiciary as to the best way to address such grievances, or through the passing and implementation of human rights laws and policies that seek to promote peace. However, this positive relationship between human rights and peace is both qualified and context specific. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of four case studies, the book identifies the conditions that can support the effective use of human rights as peacebuilding tools. Developing these, the book recommends a series of strategies that peacebuilders should adopt and rely on.
Winner of the Constantinos Emilianides Award in Law for 2020 (joint conferment).
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
I. Introduction
II. The Central Question
III. An Anatomy of the Relationship between Human Rights and Peace
IV. The Methodology
V. Conclusion
2. Clarifying the End: A Workable Definition of Peace
I. Introduction
II. Rejecting the Current Accounts of Peace
III. Forging a New Definition of Peace
IV. Conclusion
3. The Means and the End Connected: A Framework for the Relationship between Human Rights and Peace
I. Introduction
II. Defining the Means
III. The Means and the End Unconnected
IV. Resolving Conflicts and Building Peace
V. Human Rights as Tools in the Conflict Resolution Process
VI. Conclusion
4. Promoting Objective Peace through Human Rights Adjudication
I. Introduction
II. The Nature of the Conflict Being Adjudicated
III. The Type of Court Adjudicating the Conflict
IV. The Impact of Timing on the Successful Adjudication of the Conflict
V. Conclusion
5. Promoting Objective Peace through Human Rights Implementation
I. Introduction
II. The Importance of Political Willingness to Implement Human Rights
III. The Devil is in the Detail: The Importance of Careful Drafting
IV. Looking beyond the Wording of the Statute: Human Rights Bodies and their Powers
V. Strategies for Better Human Rights Implementation
VI. Conclusion
6. Protecting Human Rights and Promoting Subjective Peace
I. Introduction
II. Protecting Human Rights and Inducing Social and Psychological Change
III. The Gap between the Legal and the Real: Making a Meaningful Change in People's Lives
IV. Peace must be Built and be Seen to be Built
V. Strategies for Promoting Subjective Feelings of Peace
VI. Conclusion
7. Conclusion
I. Introduction
II. Informing the Liberal Peacebuilding Critique
III. Getting from Peace in the Books to Peace on the Ground
IV. The Need for Further Research
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