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Keane, David --- "UNESCO and the Right to Peace" [2012] ELECD 788; in Keane, David; McDermott, Yvonne (eds), "The Challenge of Human Rights" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: The Challenge of Human Rights

Editor(s): Keane, David; McDermott, Yvonne

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857939005

Section: Chapter 4

Section Title: UNESCO and the Right to Peace

Author(s): Keane, David

Number of pages: 17

Extract:

4. UNESCO and the right to peace
David Keane

The right to peace as a human right has been incidentally mentioned in
various documents. As early as 1969, the Istanbul Declaration, adopted
during the 21st International Conference of the Red Cross, proclaimed
the right to lasting peace as a human right. In January 1997, the Director-
General of UNESCO prepared the Oslo Draft Declaration on the Human
Right to Peace, which proclaimed that `every human being has the right
to peace, which is inherent in the dignity of the human person'. The 1997
Oslo Draft Declaration proved to be the apex of UNESCO's `right to
peace' initiative, which quickly met with determined state opposition.
The organization turned instead to the concept of a `culture of peace',
which had been developing in tandem with the right to peace movement. The
`culture of peace' subsumed elements of the right to peace initiative, without
the legal character that the Oslo Draft Declaration had been attempting.
However the original `culture of peace' idea had an interesting origin, includ-
ing a UNESCO document called the Seville Statement on Violence 1986.
The Seville Statement represented an exploration of the link between aggres-
sive behaviour and genetics, and sought to challenge a number of alleged
biological findings that have been used to justify violence and war.
This aspect of the `culture of peace' has been marginalized, as the
concept has instead been used to promote the more mainstream ideas
inherent in the notion of the right ...


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