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Protecting rights in conflict situations and fragile states

28 February 2005 13:00-14:15 (GMT+00) - Public event, London

Abandoned tank, Somalia (Source: Carl Montgomery, Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlmontgomery/1709694176/)
  • Violent conflicts and fragile states pose a number of challenges for the realisation of human rights. Can a rights-based approach play a positive role in conflict prevention or does it exacerbate tensions? In post-conflict or fragile states situations, should donors and the human rights community insist on standards being met, or are there approaches to help manage the process by making it clear which rights are to be prioritised in such circumstances? When it is permissible for such states to derogate from core human rights obligations?

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    Speakers:
    Christine Chinkin, London School of Economics and Political Science
    Andy Carl, Conciliation Resources
    Chair:
    Frances Stewart, University of Oxford

     

  • An ODI public event in the Human Rights and Poverty Reduction - Realities, Controversies and Strategies series.

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