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The European Convention on Human Rights was drafted in the wake of World War II. The dark shadows of war have never fully receded from Europe however. Armed conflict has resurged time and again, from Northern Ireland to Cyprus and Turkey, and from the former Yugoslavia to the Caucasus. This book focuses on the margins of conflict: human rights aspects of transitions from peace to armed conflict and vice versa. Firstly, it seeks to explore what limits human rights put on European societies which are on the brink of armed conflict. Secondly, it surveys the consequences of human rights violations committed during the armed conflict by looking at the aftermath of war. In a stimulating way, experts in their field offer food for thought on a broad range of material and especially procedural issues such as the territorial scope of the Convention, states of emergency, freedom of expression and conflict escalation, obligations relating to enforced disappearances, interim measures, and pilot judgments. Taken together, they reflect both the potential and limitations of human rights in the run-up to conflicts and their aftermath

"The European Convention on Human Rights has been a standard-setting text for transitions to peace and democracy in states throughout Europe. This book analyses the content, role and effects of the jurisprudence of the European Court relating to societies in transition. It features a wide range of transitional challenges, from killings by security forces in Northern Ireland to property restitution in East Central Europe, and from political upheaval in the Balkans to the position of religious minorities and Roma. Has the European Court developed a specific transitional jurisprudence? How do politics affect the ways in which the Court's judgments are implemented? Does the Court's case-law itself become woven into narratives of struggle in transitional societies? This book seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the unique role of Europe's main guardian of human rights, the Court in Strasbourg. It includes a comparison with the Inter-American and African human rights systems"--

Introduction /Rosemarie Buikema, Antoine Buyse and Antonius C.G.M. Robben --Persistent looking in the space of appearance #BlackLivesMatter /Nicholas Mirzoeff --Community media makers and the mediation of difference : claiming citizenship and belongingness /Lola de Koning, Elaine Nolten and Koen Leurs --"On this path to Europe" - the symbolic role of the 'Balkan corridor' in the European migration debate /Milica Trakilovic --Recycling the Christian past : the heritagization of Christianity and national identity in the Netherlands /Birgit Meyer --Love and sovereignty : an exploration of the struggle for new beginnings /Gregory Feldman --Postsecular pacification : pentecostalism and military urbanism in Rio de Janeiro /Martijn Oosterbaan and Carly Machado --Cities of refuge : rights, culture and the creation of cosmopolitan citizenship /Barbara Oomen --Deepening and widening of the protection of fundamental rights of European citizens vis-à-vis non-state, private actors /Hanneke van Eijken and Sybe de Vries --Looking back, looking forward : citizenship, contestation, and a new compact for child and youth mobility? /Jacqueline Bhabha --In search of new narratives : the role of cultural norms and actors in addressing human rights contestation /Julie Fraser --Contested cultural citizenship of a virtual transnational community : structural impediments for women to participate in the Republic of Letters (1400-1800) /Dirk van Miert --The art of dissent : Ai Weiwei, rebel with a cause /Sandra Ponzanesi.