Session: Human Rights Strategies to End Violence

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4072.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Oral

Human Rights Strategies to End Violence

Institutionalized violence -- against women, especially in war, against entire populations, against people who are incarcerated -- represents what may be the single greatest human rights challenge of our time. It brings about suffering on a massive scale, destroying the fabric of lives and communities, and leaving a terribly legacy for both physical and mental health. Violence even becomes part of the fabric of social policy, as is evident in certain practices in prisons. The protections against violence that are contained in international human rights instruments and in the law of war have all too often been ineffective in offering protection. The human rights movement is struggling to develop new strategies to protect individuals and communities from violence that is state-sponsored or where the state fails to offer protection. Some of these are controversial because, as in the case of genocide, bring about more violence through armed intervention. This session reviews the problem of institutionalized violence from a human rights perspective and looks at promising human rights-based strategies and the debates that accompany them.

Learning Objectives: To understand institutionalized violence from a human rights perspective and human-rights-based strategies to end it.

Organizer(s):

Leonard Rubenstein, JD

Moderator(s):

Leonard Rubenstein, JD

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