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INDEX WAS CREATED IN THE DAYS OF THE COLD WAR TO EXPOSE THE TERRORS OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM. TODAY THE CHALLENGE IS DIFFERENT BUT THE SAME MORAL AND RATIONAL CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS IS ESSENTIAL IN THE CONFRONTATION WITH TERROR

Analyzes the shift in focus in human rights issues from the Cold War era to those in today's weakened & failing nations. It is suggested that the Cold War era logic of humanitarian intervention as an act of conscience should be replaced with the need for intervention to rebuild failed states & reestablish national stability. Taking on greater significance since the decline of the Soviet empire, the "rediscovery" of the Holocaust in the 1970s, & the establishment of Amnesty International & other organizations, human rights violations today are more often linked to anarchy & state fragmentation than to despotic tyrannical regimes. Calls for humanitarian intervention must consider the consequences of politically neutral mobilization, optimal allocation of interventionist resources, & implementing preventive & follow-up peacekeeping measures. J. Sadler

Cast in the shadow of World War II and Nazi atrocities, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was shaped more by the fear of evil than the expectation of good. Fifty years on, it has become the individual's defence against the excesses of power and, even when challenged by dictators and demagogues, the universal language of human rights everywhere