Universal Rights and Appropriate Violence: Who Decides

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Universal Rights and Appropriate Violence Who
Decides?

• The struggle to find what is right and wrong

Gary Metts
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Problems with International Laws

• Process of
• Determining on what is acceptable
• Combining diverse notions of the rights of people
• Agreements

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Research Question

• What are some opinions on Universal Human Rights.
  
• Study of Italy and United States-
• Two catholic groups in two separate countries.
  Similar mission statements and a large degree of
  commonality.

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Human Rights

• What are the rights to which everyone on earth
  should be entitled?
• When is it necessary to use violence to defend
  yourself?
• How will they be determined and by whom?

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War and Conflict

• When should states be able to use military force?
• Should they need permission from anyone?
• How is war justified?

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What do some say?
The U.N. first issued its Universal Declaration
of Human Rights on the 10th of December 1948 in
over 300 languages. It contains 30 articles
outlining what the organization feels should be
the rights of all men. Nonetheless, there have
been thousands of documented abuses of said
rights since the Declaration was enacted.
Therefore, what is the credibility of this
document?
Source Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights URL http//www.unhchr.ch/udhr/index.htm
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Proposed Hypothesis
I propose to study two similar Catholic Groups
one in Italy and the other in the U.S. I intend
to gather opinions on Universal Human rights and
appropriate uses of violence to discover the
degree of disagreement between these two similar
groups and compare and contrast the results with
Declarations from the U.N. and Major Human Rights
Organizations. As well as discussing specific
case studies where problems often arise in coming
to a consensus decision on Universal Rights.
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Why is this important to International Studies?

• The goal of my research is to advance the study
  of Human Rights and International law. It is my
  belief that if we understand the patterns of
  where disagreements most often occur, we can be
  more effective in preventing unwanted outcomes in
  International Relations and Individual rights.

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Related Works

• Literature reviews of previous, cross-cultural
  studies.
• Personal Surveys
• Process of analytic induction
• Six step process by which one can gain a greater
  understanding of a subject, as well as forming a
  more precise hypothesis upon it. " . . . inducing
  laws from a deep analysis of experimentally
  isolated instances (Znaniecki, 1934)

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Future Knowledge

• Investigation into the credibility and
  possibility of International Laws.
• Power of International Organizations
• Specific case study of two groups with similar
  mission statements and guiding ideologies

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Methods of Research

• Analytic induction (dynamic hypothesis and
  conclusions)
• More, in-depth research in relevant
  literature/past studies
• Surveys with select members of two cultures
• Interviews with select experts