On the Jurisprudential Basis of the Legitimacy of the Right to Peace and the Right to Harmony

Jihong Mo

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Chapter 1 On the Jurisprudential Basis of the Legitimacy of the Right to Peace and the Right to Harmony

In: Chinese Yearbook of Human Rights, Volume 6 (2024)

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Mo Jihong

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Zhong Linyan

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Pages:: 1–23

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004697362_002

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The right to peace and the right to harmony are two important concepts of human rights that have in recent years become the areas of concern in theory and practice both at home and abroad. In fact, the right to peace has found standardized expression in the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Peace, in spite of the controversy it has caused at the drafting stage of the Declaration. As the connotations of the “right to enjoy peace” and “freedom from fear and want” defined in it have not been universally acknowledged by the international community, further illustration and interpretation from jurisprudence are required before the Declaration is implemented through the mechanism of human rights protection. In contrast, the “right to harmony”, a unique concept that has been created by Chinese scholars with a purpose to introduce into the human rights system the idea of “harmony but difference” from the ethics of Chinese cultural tradition, purports to pursue a good social moral order. Theoretically, both concepts can be incorporated into the categories of the right to subsistence, personality and freedom under the traditional theory of human rights, but the “right to harmony” displays more of the characteristics of human rights in the new era. Therefore, to protect the “right to harmony” requires integrating the obligations of the state and government, social organizations and individuals under the traditional human rights protection mechanism, so as to form an organically composed human rights protection system that unifies the abstract and the concrete, the means and the ends, the conditions and results. In addition, as a “mechanism” to grasp the characteristics of the human rights protection system on the macro level and the holistic policy level, building a community with a shared future for mankind is an effective institutional platform and legal principle to ensure that the “right to peace” and the “right to harmony” are integrated into the standardized rights system.

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Chinese Yearbook of Human Rights, Volume 6 (2024)

Series: Chinese Yearbook of Human Rights, Volume: 6

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004697362

Publisher:: Brill | Nijhoff

Print Publication Date:: 17 Jul 2024

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- Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
  - Human Rights
- International Law
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