| Our project explores how outside promotion of human rights affects violent conflict. Governments and non-governmental and international organizations often push for improvement in human rights to promote justice and long-term peace in conflict settings. Yet, we lack systematic study about whether and under what conditions such promotion helps or hinders conflict resolution in practice. We provide such study by combining qualitative and quantitative analysis. The former involves participant-observation study of the research team?s mediation efforts in Sri Lanka and Kirkuk (Iraq). The quantitative analysis involves analyzing new data on month-to-month developments in human-rights promotion and conflict in 20 conflict cases. |
