This article analyses the broad shifts in the relationship between peace settlements and human rights from 1990 to the present day. The article points to three phases of development: from 1990 to 2000, which saw a rise in peace processes and agreements and creative engagement with human rights; from 2000 to 2010, when new approaches to human rights and peacemaking were rapidly ‘normativized’ in new international legal standards, but at a cost of a more nuanced political practice; and from 2010 to the current date, an ‘era of disillusionment’ as regards the apparent failures of peacebuilding efforts, where human rights also have a more precarious global position. In the current era I suggest that we are witnessing renewed attention to the ‘politics of the local’ which questions and even rejects formalized human rights approaches to peacebuilding. Counter to the pessimism of the current era, I suggest that this new context may in fact offer new opportunities to return to the idea of human rights as a political practice. Rather than approaching rights as a set of external normative standards to propel liberal institution-building, human rights-based peacebuilding would aim to support a political practice in which rights are given meaning through the process by which they are ‘negotiated’ into being as part of an ongoing politics of inclusion. Such an approach would not only assist engagement with peace processes but might also invigorate a radical conflict prevention approach.

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和平解决与人权：冷战后循环史

本文分析了从 1990 年至今和平解决与人权之间关系的广泛变化。文章指出了三个发展阶段：从 1990 年到 2000 年，和平进程和协议以及对人权的创造性参与有所增加；从 2000 年到 2010 年，人权和缔造和平的新方法在新的国际法律标准中迅速“规范化”，但代价是更加微妙的政治实践；从 2010 年到现在，这是一个关于建设和平努力明显失败的“幻灭时代”，人权在全球的地位也更加岌岌可危。在当前时代，我建议我们正在目睹对“地方政治”的重新关注，它质疑甚至拒绝正式的人权建设方法。与当前时代的悲观情绪相反，我认为这种新环境实际上可能为回归人权作为一种政治实践的理念提供了新的机会。以人权为基础的和平建设旨在支持一种政治实践，在这种实践中，权利通过“谈判”成为一部分的过程被赋予意义，而不是将权利作为一套外部规范标准来推动自由体制建设。持续的包容性政治。这种方法不仅有助于参与和平进程，而且可能会激发激进的冲突预防方法。以人权为基础的和平建设旨在支持一种政治实践，在这种实践中，权利通过“谈判”成为一部分的过程被赋予意义，而不是将权利作为一套外部规范标准来推动自由体制建设。持续的包容性政治。这种方法不仅有助于参与和平进程，而且可能会激发激进的冲突预防方法。以人权为基础的和平建设旨在支持一种政治实践，在这种实践中，权利通过“谈判”成为一部分的过程被赋予意义，而不是将权利作为一套外部规范标准来推动自由体制建设。持续的包容性政治。这种方法不仅有助于参与和平进程，而且可能会激发激进的冲突预防方法。