Book contents
- The Civilianization of War
- Human Rights in History
- The Civilianization of War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Civilianization of War and the Changing Civil–Military Divide, 1914–2014
- Part I Who Fights? Combatants, Mobilization and the Changing Nature of War
- Part II A Moving Target: Strategic Bombing and Civilians, 1916–2014
- Part III Civilian Protection and International Norms and Organizations: When and How Much?
- 12 Turn Everyone into a Civilian: René Cassin and the UNESCO Project, 1919–1945
- 13 Human Rights Is the Continuation of War by Other Means: The United States and the Creation of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, 1945–1948*
- 14 The United Nations, Decolonization and Violence against Civilians in the French and British Empires
- 15 The ‘Protection of Civilians’: Peacekeeping’s New Raison d’Être?
- Index
13 - Human Rights Is the Continuation of War by Other Means: The United States and the Creation of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, 1945–1948*
from Part III - Civilian Protection and International Norms and Organizations: When and How Much?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2018
Book contents
- The Civilianization of War
- Human Rights in History
- The Civilianization of War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Civilianization of War and the Changing Civil–Military Divide, 1914–2014
- Part I Who Fights? Combatants, Mobilization and the Changing Nature of War
- Part II A Moving Target: Strategic Bombing and Civilians, 1916–2014
- Part III Civilian Protection and International Norms and Organizations: When and How Much?
- 12 Turn Everyone into a Civilian: René Cassin and the UNESCO Project, 1919–1945
- 13 Human Rights Is the Continuation of War by Other Means: The United States and the Creation of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, 1945–1948*
- 14 The United Nations, Decolonization and Violence against Civilians in the French and British Empires
- 15 The ‘Protection of Civilians’: Peacekeeping’s New Raison d’Être?
- Index
Summary
In March 2006, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) created the Human Rights Council (UNHCR) which replaced the Commission on Human Rights established in 1946. Despite several successes, including the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, the Commission suffered from a lack of effectiveness, the presence of human rights violators in its ranks, and, above all, the politicization of its work. As this chapter argues, the conception of the human that materialized in the wake of the Second World War mirrored the rise of the global Cold War. Human rights became one of those sites over which American and Soviet views collided and over which the civil-military distinction collapsed. Human Rights emerged in 1945 as a new site for waging a Cold War for the hearts and minds of millions of civilians around the world.
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- The Civilianization of WarThe Changing Civil–Military Divide, 1914–2014, pp. 260 - 277Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018