| ID | 072907 |
| Title Proper | Human rights in conflict |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Foot, Rosemary |
| Publication | 2006. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The language of war has a recognised and intimate relationship with the abuse of a core set of civil and political rights. Detention without trial, arbitrary arrest, disappearance, torture and the like soon result once a political authority decides to describe a conflict in which it is involved as 'war'. National or regime security takes centre stage, security ideologies play a stronger role, and the means employed push at the boundaries of the acceptable. This close association between conflict and human-rights abuse, if no other reason, should make us pause before we too readily resort to the language of war. The Cold War and the current 'global war on terror' - to use the US term - are no exceptions to this general finding. Disappearance, torture and extra-judicial killings have been features of both. The struggle against terrorism has generated a sense of impunity for actions that threaten many different groups. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 48, No. 3; Autumn 2006: p109-126 |
| Journal Source | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol: 48 No 3 |
| Key Words | Human Rights ; Conflict ; National Security |