Human Rights and Conflict

Human Rights and Conflict

Author: Julie Mertus

Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 9781929223770

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'Human rights and conflict' is divided into three parts, each capturing the role played by human rights at a different stage in the conflict cycle.


Human Rights and Conflict

Human Rights and Conflict

Author: Julie Mertus

Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9781929223763

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'Human rights and conflict' is divided into three parts, each capturing the role played by human rights at a different stage in the conflict cycle.


Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context

Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context

Author: Eileen F. Babbitt

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2009-09-09

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0815651244

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Preventing sweeping human rights violations or wars and rebuilding societies in their aftermath require an approach encompassing the perspectives of both human rights advocates and practitioners of conflict resolution. While these two groups work to achieve many of the same goals—notably to end violence and loss of life—they often make different assumptions, apply different methods, and operate under different values and institutional constraints. As a result, they may adopt conflicting or even mutually exclusive approaches to the same problem. Eileen F. Babbitt and Ellen L. Lutz have collected groundbreaking essays exploring the relationship between human rights and conflict resolution. Employing a case study approach, the contributing authors examine three areas of conflict—Sierra Leone, Colombia, and Northern Ireland—from the perspectives of participants in both the peace-making and human rights efforts in each country. By spotlighting the role of activists and reflecting on what was learned in these cases, this volume seeks to push scholars and practitioners of both conflict resolution and human rights to think more creatively about the intersection of these two fields.


Women's Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law

Women's Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law

Author: Catherine O'Rourke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-24

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1108628311

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Laws and norms that focus on women's lives in conflict have proliferated across the regimes of international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights law and the United Nations Security Council. While separate institutions, with differing powers of monitoring and enforcement, implement these laws and norms, the activities of regimes overlap. Women's Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law is the first book to account for this pluralism and institutional diversity. This book identifies key aspects of how different regimes regulate women's rights in conflict, and how they interact. Using country case studies to reveal the practical implications of the fragmented protection of women's rights in conflict, this book offers a dynamic account of how regimes and institutions interact, the extent to which they reinforce each other, and the tensions and gaps in regulation that emerge.


Human Rights in Armed Conflict

Human Rights in Armed Conflict

Author: Gerd Oberleitner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1107087546

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A comprehensive analysis of the legal challenges and practical consequences of applying international human rights law in armed conflict situations.


War, Conflict and Human Rights

War, Conflict and Human Rights

Author: Chandra Lekha Sriram

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-16

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1135019460

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"War, Conflict and Human Rights is an innovative, interdisciplinary textbook combining aspects of law, politics, and conflict analysis to examine the relationship between human rights and armed conflict. This second edition has been revised and updated, making use of both theoretical and practical approaches. Over the course of the book, the authors: - examine the tensions and complementarities between protection of human rights and resolution of conflict, including the competing political demands and the challenges posed by internal armed conflict; - analyse the different obligations and legal regimes applicable to state and non-state actors, including non-state armed groups, multinational corporations and private military and security companies; - explore the scope and effects of human rights violations in contemporary armed conflicts, such as those in Sierra Leone, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Yugoslavia, and Cambodia, and reflect on recent events of the "Arab Spring"; - assess the legal and institutional accountability mechanisms developed in the wake of armed conflict to punish violations of human rights law, and international humanitarian law such as the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the International Criminal Court, as well as other mechanisms of transitional justice; - discuss continuing and emergent global trends and challenges in the fields of human rights and conflict analysis. This volume will be essential reading for students of war and conflict studies, human rights, and international humanitarian law, and highly recommended for students of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, international security and international relations, generally"--


Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

Author: Claudia Fuentes Julio

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1315409356

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Human rights and conflict resolution have been traditionally perceived as two separate fields, sometimes in competition or in tension and occasionally with contradictory approaches towards achieving a lasting peace. Although human rights norms have been incorporated and institutionalized by various national, regional, and international organizations that deal with conflict resolution, negotiators and mediators are often pressured in practice to overlook international human rights principles in favor of compliance and more immediate outcomes. The chapters in this volume navigate the relationship between human rights and conflict resolution by fleshing out practical, conceptual, and institutional encounters of the two agendas and engaging with lessons learned and windows of opportunities for mutual learning. Recognizing the increasing relevance of this debate and important gaps in the current research on the topic, this book addresses the following questions: How can we improve our practical and theoretical understanding of the complementarity between human rights and conflict resolution? How would a human rights-based approach to conflict resolution look like? How are international, regional, and national organizations promoting, implementing, and/or adapting to better coordinate between human rights and conflict resolution? Building on empirical evidence from contemporary conflict resolution processes, how have human rights been integrated in different efforts on the ground? What are the main lessons learned in this regard? Examining a wide range of countries and issues, this work is essential reading for human rights, conflict resolution, and security experts including scholars, diplomats, policy-makers, civil society representatives, and students of international politics.


Practitioners' Guide to Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict

Practitioners' Guide to Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict

Author: Daragh Murray

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0198791399

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This book provides detailed guidance for armed forces and practitioners on the application of international human rights law during armed conflict and its relationship with the law of armed conflict.


Rights as Weapons

Rights as Weapons

Author: Clifford Bob

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0691216886

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Bob looks at how political forces use rights as rallying cries: naturalizing novel claims as rights inherent in humanity, absolutizing them as trumps over rival interests or community concerns, universalizing them as transcultural and transhistorical, and depoliticizing them as concepts beyond debate. He shows how powerful proponents employ rights as camouflage to cover ulterior motives, as crowbars to break rival coalitions, as blockades to suppress subordinate groups, as spears to puncture discrete policies, and as dynamite to explode whole societies. And he demonstrates how the targets of rights campaigns repulse such assaults, using their own rights-like weapons: denying the abuses they are accused of, constructing rival rights to protect themselves, portraying themselves as victims rather than violators, and repudiating authoritative decisions against them.