Contributors to this Dialogue aim to go beyond the divide and polarising language of "peace versus justice" in order to gain a clearer understanding of the potential - and limits - of bringing together human rights and conflict transformation in specific contexts. Drawing evidence from contexts such as Nepal, South Africa, Israel/Palestine, Uganda and Colombia, they argue that a more thorough emphasis on human rights - as causes and manifestation of conflicts, but also as normative and practical intervention tools - contributes to bringing conflict transformation closer to its aim of tackling conflicts at their deepest roots. The lead author and respondents engage in a rich dialogue on areas of tensions as well as complementarity between the two sets of practices: they encourage mutual learning and joint work, and stress the importance of locally-designed, timely and context-specific initiatives, as well as the hard-nosed analysis of political context and use of human rights and conflict transformation discourses.

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Serie / Reihe: Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series No 9

Personen: Veronique Dudouet Beatrix Schmelzle

Schlagwörter: RELIGIONEN FRIEDEN PALÄSTINA KONFLIKTE UGANDA KOLUMBIEN ISRAEL