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Do Gross Human Rights Abuses Pave the Way to Violence? A Literature Survey on the Nexus Between Ethnic Conflict and Human Rights Violations in Sri Lanka

2020; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.3622102

1556-5068

Keshani Hettiarachchi,

Political Conflict and Governance

Empirical scholarship, including many statistical studies, suggests that civil war often entails increased levels of human rights abuse. But barely asked question is that “Do Human rights violations escalated the intolerance and in the worst case, armed ethnic conflict?”The objective of this essay to study the link between Human rights violations especially denial of group rights caused the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. This study is outlined in a human rights based framework.