ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the comprehension of human rights in terms of how human rights are understood in relation to the overall concepts of peace and violence including the issues of development and disarmament. Differing and contradictory assumptions made about the basic qualities of the human being (the learner) are analyzed. In the peace education tradition, all human beings are seen to be needing peace education. The chapter explains that learning human rights praxis is in harmony with a holistic comprehension viewing human rights as closely integrated with major issues such as development and disarmament in a multi-level approach requiring analysis of both synchronous and diachronic relations. It discusses human rights and their violations question in light of: the broader concepts of peace and violence, the question of recognition of the other, the question of responsibility, and the dialectic relations between micro and macro.
