Human Rights and Root Causes

Susan Marks
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The human rights movement has traditionally focused on documenting abuses, rather than attempting to explain them. In recent years, however, the question of the 'root causes' of violations has emerged as a key issue in human rights work. The present article examines this new (or newly insistent) discourse of root causes. While valuable, it is shown to have significant limitations. It foreshortens the investigation of causes; it treats effects as though they were causes; and it identifies causes only to put them aside. With these points in mind, the article counterposes an alternative approach in which the orienting concept is not root causes, but 'planned misery'.
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人权和根本原因
传统上,人权运动关注的是记录虐待行为,而不是试图解释这些行为。然而,近年来,侵犯人权行为的“根本原因”问题已成为人权工作中的一个关键问题。本文探讨了这种新的(或新坚持的)话语的根本原因。虽然它很有价值,但也有很大的局限性。它缩短了对原因的调查;它把结果当作原因来对待;它识别原因只是为了把它们放在一边。考虑到这些要点,本文提出了另一种方法,其中定向概念不是根本原因,而是“计划的痛苦”。
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