Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-Violence Societies (Human Rights Law in Perspective) - Softcover

Hadjigeorgiou, Nasia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509954732 ISBN 13: 9781509954735

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

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).

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About the Authors

Nasia Hadjigeorgiou is an Assistant Professor in Transitional Justice and Human Rights at the University of Central Lancashire (Cyprus).

Colin Harvey is Professor of Human Rights Law, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509954732
• ISBN 13: 9781509954735
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272