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Introduction : human rights and conflict resolution : bridging the gap? / Claudia Fuentes Julio and Paula Drumond -- The transformative potential of human rights in conflict resolution / Michelle Parlevliet -- The place of human rights in the twenty-first century peace system / Oliver P. Richmond -- Human rights issues and dilemmas in contemporary peace mediation / Katia Papagianni -- International human rights institutions and conflict resolution / Florian Hoffmann and Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann -- Regional organization, human rights and conflict resolution / Renata Summa and Monica Herz -- Truth versus/and justice : the case of the Brazilian National Truth Commission / Carolina de Campos Melo -- Human Rights non-governmental organizations in conflict transformation / Anja Mihr -- Engaging armed groups in conflict resolution from a human rights perspective / David Petrasek -- Integrating gender into conflict resolution and human rights discourses : rethinking the politics of dialogue in Israel, Palestine, and the North of Ireland / Simona Sharoni -- Human rights and the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements / Raslan Ibrahim and Edy Kaufman -- Between peace and justice : the role of human rights norms in Colombia's peace process / Sandra Borda and Martha GUTIÉRREZ -- Conclusion : integrating human rights into conflict resolution : lessons learned and opportunities for engagement / Claudia Fuentes Julio and Paula Drumond.

"Human rights and conflict resolution have been traditionally perceived as two separate fields, sometimes in competition or in tension and occasionally with contradictory approaches towards achieving a lasting peace. Although human rights norms have been incorporated and institutionalized by various national, regional, and international organizations that deal with conflict resolution, negotiators and mediators are often pressured in practice to overlook international human rights principles in favor of compliance and more immediate outcomes. The chapters in this volume navigate the relationship between human rights and conflict resolution by fleshing out practical, conceptual, and institutional encounters of the two agendas and engaging with lessons learned and windows of opportunities for mutual learning. Recognizing the increasing relevance of this debate and important gaps in the current research on the topic, this book addresses the following questions:How can we improve our practical and theoretical understanding of the complementarity between human rights and conflict resolution? How would a human rights-based approach to conflict resolution look like? How are international, regional, and national organizations promoting, implementing, and/or adapting to better coordinate between human rights and conflict resolution? Building on empirical evidence from contemporary conflict resolution processes, how have human rights been integrated in different efforts on the ground? What are the main lessons learned in this regard? Examining a wide range of countries and issues, this work is essential reading for human rights, conflict resolution, and security experts including scholars, diplomats, policy-makers, civil society representatives, and students of international politics."--Provided by publisher.

Human rights and conflict resolution have been traditionally perceived as two separate fields, with contradictory principles and conflicting approaches toward achieving peace. This essay aims to understand these two fields in a more integrative way, showing how a human rights perspective can enrich the theory and practice of conflict resolution. It clarifies the main characteristics of a human rights approach to conflict resolution and identifies a set of human rights standards guiding its implementation: a normative legal framework; structural conditions for peace; participation and inclusion; and accountability and redress. The essay also briefly applies a human rights approach to the Colombian peace process and to the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The conclusion addresses one of the main criticisms of this approach and its principal challenges.

This paper explores a number of success stories of scholar-practitioner interactions on issues such as democracy promotion, fostering economic development, reducing extreme income inequality, and foreign policymaking toward the United States, among others, to argue that the so-called scholar-practitioner gap in International Relations might not be as wide as it may seem. It also highlights some of the salient limits to effective relations between the worlds of ideas and policy, and it discusses the main transmission belts-both individual and institutional-through which scholarly outputs influence the different stages of policymaking. The paper closes by proposing a number of 'best practices' to enhance effective scholar-practitioner relations in inter-American affairs and beyond, including tying research to significant world events, synthesizing research findings into digestible components, developing relations of trust with allies in government, providing concrete policy recommendations based on rigorous research and cost-effectiveness analyses, and integrating practitioners into academic departments, among others. Adapted from the source document.

Este libro se presenta en cumplimiento de unos de los objetivos del Proyecto titulado Gobernabilidad y Convivencia Democrática en América Latina, cual es precisamente, avanzar en la generación de conocimiento sobre la relación entre los dos conceptos pilares que dan nombre al Proyecto, que en su Fase II, retoma las preguntas planteadas en la primera etapa del proyecto, y que apunta precisamente, casi de manera obligatoria a introducir activamente en la discusión las relaciones entre convivencia democrática y seguridad. El Proyecto ha sido desarrollado por la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales -FLACSO- con el auspicio de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo -AECID-. El libro que presentamos, Seguridad y Convivencia Democrática. Múltiples dimensiones de la relación, se constituye así en un resultado más en el marco del proyecto que se ha desarrollado en la región gracias al apoyo invaluable de la AECID.