The
Right to Peace & valuable discourse for Afghanistan
Peace
is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and
violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict
(such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or
groups.
The
Right to Peace is the inherent right of every Human on Earth. This right has
been testified to through the long history of mankind and clearly established
as the most fundamental human right. The effective enjoyment of human rights
can be realized only in an environment of peace and development. Therefore,
peace, development and human rights, are organically linked, with peace as the
sine qua non condition for the achievement of freedom, social progress and
justice”. Moreover, he said that peace and security, independence and
development are noble goals that peoples of the world are striving for. With a
just and durable peace, strengthened by successive disarmament measures,
peoples of the world could freely engage in economic and social development and
promote friendly ties among nations.
The
Right to Peace is interrelated with other rights that promote a life of dignity
for all. In this way, Article 2 of the Declaration on the Right to Peace proclaims
the obligation of States to “respect, implement and promote” key principles
grounded in the notion of human dignity, including equality,
non-discrimination, freedom from fear and want, as well as justice and the rule
of law.
Peace
is more than the absence of war. Modern violent conflicts have not only direct
but also indirect and structural causes. In most cases, multi-layered direct
and indirect aspects play a role. Many of these can be considered more at the
national, domestic level, such as political discrimination, human rights
violations and inequitable distribution; others need to be analyzed at the
regional and/or global level, such as proxy wars, consequences of climate
change and environmental damage, competition for sales markets and global resources,
free trade agreements, etc.
These
deeper levels of violent conflicts make it not only difficult to understand and
analyses conflicts, but also and above all – to pursue a meaningful and
multi-layered approach to peace policy that takes these aspects into account
and does not only aim at stopping direct violence. The term “positive peace”
considers these aspects and aims at a state in which not only direct violence
is stopped, but also indirect and structural forms of violence are eliminated
in a preventive and sustainable way.
Causes of conflict in recent decades,
which a policy of positive peace must therefore consider, analyze and
criticize, are: Political discrimination, human rights violations, unjust
socio-economic distribution, the relations of cooperation and competition
between states and state blocs for sales markets and global resources in the
capitalist world economy, the irresponsible free trade policies,
geopolitical interest politics that quickly escalate local conflicts into proxy
wars, or climate change, which is leaving swathes of land desolate and, as a
central cause of flight, promoting distribution conflicts. All these things
fall under the heading of causes of conflict that must be addressed
preventively if peace is to be more than just the temporary absence of war. A
politics of left alternatives to violence therefore aims at transformation in
the long term, at the conditions of a positive peace, where social and
transformative justice is the precondition for a lasting ceasefire. for this
reason, the ADFP considers the slogan:”Let’s strive for positive peace!” to be
fundamental.ADFP emphasizes that: We all have the right to live in a peaceful
and orderly society so that these rights and freedoms can be protected and
exercised in Afghanistan and other
parts of the world. An opportunity we strive to expand as a valuable discourse.
