Human Rights and Human Security

Flashcards covering key concepts from Chapter 7 on Human Rights and Human Security, including definitions and significant historical facts.

What is the modern concept of individual human rights development region?

The concept of individual human rights developed in Europe.

The UNHCR estimates displaced people due to conflict is approximately __.

84 million.

What do second-generation human rights cover?

Social, economic, and cultural rights.

What term describes the separation of the world into civilized and uncivilized?

Standards of civilization.

Who was Richard Cobden and what was his view on nonintervention?

Richard Cobden criticized traditional diplomacy but supported the norm of nonintervention.

What is the primary challenge in realizing humanitarian impulses?

The sovereignty of states.

Which generation of human rights focuses on social, economic, and cultural rights?

Second.

What key concept from the Middle Ages relates to rights?

Natural law.

What document established the political practice of extracting charters of liberties?

Magna Carta 1215.

Which thinker emphasized that the liberal position on rights benefits the wealthy?

Karl Marx.

What did the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations report in 2000 regarding peacekeepers?

The need for more women as peacekeepers.

What force has complicated leaders' assertion about national cultural norms?

Globalization.

Where was the International Criminal Court established?

The Hague, Netherlands.

What are the four justifications for invoking the Right to Protect (R2P)?

Genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity.

Why was French president François Mitterrand concerned about an RPF victory in Rwanda?

He feared it would bring the country under the influence of Anglophones.

What does Kofi Annan say must be weighed against national sovereignty?

International law.

What report endorsed the concept of humanitarian intervention?

A More Secure World.

Why do realist scholars claim states reject humanitarian intervention?

States only pursue their national interest.

Which state opposed the universalism of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948?

Saudi Arabia.

What are inalienable rights such as life and liberty referred to as?

Human rights.

What European discourse examined civilian and uncivilized values?

Standards of Civilization.

What do authoritarian states and great powers typically oppose?

Human rights conventions.

What is the idea of improving lives referred to as?

Progress and development.

What is the concept that no one is secure until all are secure from threats of war?

Common security.

What does the term human security refer to?

The security of people, including their physical safety and human rights.

What did the Congress of Vienna seek to ban?

The slave trade.

What concept asserts common moral standards in human relations?

Natural law.

What is the military action to end humanitarian threats called?

Humanitarian intervention.

What percentage of deaths in recent conflicts are civilian casualties?

80% to 85%.

In which internal conflict was R2P successfully invoked?

Libya.