Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

When responding to conflict, human rights advocates and conflict resolvers both seek to end violence and limit loss of life. In the long run, both try to assist societies to ensure the violence does not recur and the rights of every human being are respected.

The UN Charter, adopted in 1945, declares that the highest purposes of the organisation are ‘to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights…, to  establish conditions under which justice and espect for…international law can be maintained,…and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.’