THE HUMAN RIGHT TO PEACE: EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL THREATS TO ITS REALIZATION

Abstract

The article examines internal and external threats to the realization of the human right to peace, their interconnection and interdependence.

Among the external threats to the realization of the human right to peace are: wars, armed conflicts between states or so-called acts of military aggression and the associated arms race and militarization of societies; environmental, economic, social and other disasters or crises, which in modern conditions are becoming increasingly global in nature and are capable of provoking conflicts for survival, intensifying uncontrolled migration and social tension; transnational crime and international terrorism, which not only create a direct threat to the physical security of citizens, but also lead to a number of negative socio-economic and other consequences that limit people's access to vital social benefits and significantly complicate the process of exercising their rights and freedoms. Internal threats to the realization of the human right to peace are the strengthening of autocratic tendencies in the development of individual states, accompanied primarily by a decrease in political competition, restrictions on the rights and freedoms of citizens, monopolization of the information space of society, weakening of the role of civil society in the political, economic, informational and other spheres of life; various forms of social discrimination, which generates polarization of society, the emergence of radical movements in it, capable of provoking violence, mutual distrust in the system of functioning of civil society institutions; significant miscalculations in the formation and implementation of educational, cultural, family and information policies in the state.

It is emphasized that external and internal threats to the right to peace do not exist in isolation, but on the contrary, they mutually reinforce each other. It is concluded that the effective provision and protection of the right to peace requires concerted, coordinated efforts of modern states, international organizations, and civil society aimed at preventing conflicts, strengthening law and order, and forming a global culture of peace, the principles of which should be embedded in the regional and national context of this culture.