صلح و حقوق بشر : فرصتها و چالشهاي فراسو

Peace and Human Rights: Future Opportunities and Challenges

Peace and human rights are inter-related with mutual impacts and implications. These two concepts are enjoying similarities, but never can be regarded as sub group for each other. In this paper, we argue that in the current international system of nation-states, respecting human rights do not necessarily lead to peace. Each of them is an independent concept, and somehow any of them, can be imagined is in front of another. For instance, with increasing acts of violation of human rights, we can see how peace and security will be endangered. On the other hand, the lack of peace and security will endanger human rights in different levels. We conclude that peace and human rights to be perceived as acceptable and ideal values, and, we never can claim priority for any of them. We discuss here their inter-relations, impacts and implications, such as how the peace can be regarded as a pre-condition for achieving human rights. In other words, respecting human rights lead to peace, and achieving peace contribute to upgrading human rights. So, we can ask: does peace pave the way for enjoying human rights, or can we expect human rights without peace and security? In historical background, we can witness such a relation between these two, but in important international law documents, we can not see that respecting human rights can achieve peace and security.