Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-violence Societies

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

Adjudication · Context (archaeology) · Geography · Grievance · Human rights · Law and economics · Peacebuilding · Political science · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security

• Conflict resolution in post-violence societies

  Nasia Hadjigeorgiou•The International Journal of…•2020

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