جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "ethnic conflicts" در نشریات گروه "فقه و حقوق"

Ethnic conflicts (ECs) are considered to be one of the current serious dangers for internal stability and safety as well as regional and international peace and security. Minority is a collective construction and the "group" plays a pivotal role in formation of minority groups' collective identity and the possibility of the outbreak of ECs. It appears that the Liberal International Law, due to proceeding neutrality policy and, as a consequence, paving the way for indirect discrimination against minorities from one side and radical insistence on individualism and individual demands and neglecting collective and group identity and rights on the other side, has disregarded the "group" that plays a substantial role in the outbreak and intensification of ECs. Consequently, this has led to its failure in preventing the tensions between the majority and minority or between different minority groups.

Maintenance of international peace and security seems to be impossible without having regional peace and security, which itself is dependent upon the stability and security in national societies. The historical upheavals demonstrate that the protection of minorities is essential for regional and international stability, peace and security, and discrimination against persons belonging to these groups, always has subjected internal stability and regional and international peace and security into serious danger. Both the principal philosophy of Tribute Contract in Islam and the instrumental aim of minoritie's protection system are to prevent war and conflict between persons belonging to minorities and those of majority populations in the light of territorial integrity of the states, and consequently maintenance of regional and international peace and security. Therefore, due to securing peace and security, minorities should be protected and the enjoyment of these groups from their rights must be assured. The authors in this article believe that protection of minorities and guarantying their rights and resorting to pacific approach of Islam regarding the co-existence of different social groups, as a principal instrument for preventing the outbreak of ethnic conflicts, is of vital importance for the maintenance of regional peace and security.