NDLI: A Critical Reading of Human Rights: The Challenges of Translating Normativity into Political Action in post-violent conflict contexts

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A Critical Reading of Human Rights: The Challenges of Translating Normativity into Political Action in post-violent conflict contexts

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Author	Nascimento, Daniela Simão, Licínia
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	After a booming normative agenda, sponsoring a rule-based international order reached its apex in the immediate post-Cold War context, liberal principles of human rights and democracy have increasingly been under strong criticism and skepticism. This has weakened international protection mechanisms and marginalized debates of emancipation and empowerment, for the sake of short-term stability. The critique to the liberal peace model has made the argument that part of the reason why the legitimacy of human rights and democracy has been eroded is the instrumental use of these norms by western powers, to justify the use of coercive means to maintain international hegemony. A renewed look at the arguments sustaining the validity of these approaches and views is thus required as well as a critical view on international interventions in violent conflict and postviolent conflict scenarios, confronting them with alternative views as to how to promote democracy and human rights. Considering this background, this paper poses two interrelated questions: why has the promotion of human rights norms became so unpopular? Can the normative value of these principles and their practical reach be reinforced by an ethical approach to political action? Taking on a critical approach to human rights promotion, this paper argues that political action needs to be centered on the exercise of autonomy and power by human rights subjects in order to give substance to human rights politics.
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