ABSTRACT
This conclusion provides some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of hate speech and human rights relationship in the Czech and Slovak Republics, two post-communist democracies which share historical, political, social and legal backgrounds. It provides an analysis of United Nations human rights law since World War II. The book explains the complexity of political and legal processes of the beginning of the 1990s and the challenges of a proper implementation and understanding of core democratic values such as freedom of expression and the protection of minorities in post-communist societies. It also focuses on the Penal Regulation of Hate Speech and its interpretation through the application of the three-prong theory. The book explains the historical and political motivation behind the use of the umbrella term ‘extremism’ for bias or hate-motivated offenses.
