ABSTRACT
There is a tension between confronting abusive sovereignty and generating more responsive and creative sovereignty that is experienced within each of the four approaches to human rights protection. Focusing on the human process of restoration and national reconstruction, it is useful to look at three profiles of individuals who experienced human rights abuses and to try to see them in human terms. There is a need to explore some of the more practical aspects of a restorative process of nation-building. Building on three clusters of institution-building, service and training activities is the ultimate challenge of non-violent conflict resolution. "Ethnic strife" in regions such as Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Rwanda has a very important economic dimension, associated with historical inequities in access to land, resources, employment and social services by discrete individuals and social groups. In addition to the material and economic aspects of reconstruction, a process of reconciliation will call upon the more spiritual capacities of compromise and forgiveness.
