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Rights Beautiful Collection of Professor Saneh Chamarik

the most crucial task of conflict management and social transformation
in an orderly manner. True human rights look to social order and security.
What is really in need is the human vision and mutual understanding.
And that would greatly save our own societies from unnecessary chaos
and enormous losses. As I have pointed out, we all share a good deal
of common ground that also includes both physically in terms of
resource base of bio-diversity, and culturally with regard to local
traditional knowledge and community way of life that makes sustainable
development possible and feasible. In short, we are having a sort of
comparative advantage, to use the economist’s jargon, as the basis upon
which to work on the creativity of human rights and dignity. So you
can see, this is well in line with what Marzuki Darusman raises the
point about making the process of institution building - ASEAN Human
Rights Mechanism – “more relevant to the grassroots peoples and
communities, so that they can enjoy the full range of human rights and
dignity”. This is certainly not an empty ideal. But then it bears upon all of
us to work it out in the process of our dialogue and related action.
Of course, we all share the concern of the current dilemma the
whole world is facing. That is to say, the global impact of the 9/11 and
the war on terrorism. On top of our immediate concern with the
increasingly precarious state of human rights, this inevitably brings us to
further issue in regard to the working status and future of the United
Nations, the cornerstone of international human rights standards ever
since after the World War ll holocaust. There is little we can do about it.
It may not be direct concern on our part, of course. But if we can possibly
ever think of doing something at all, I should like, if I may, to add a
little short note here. One just cannot help it, in view of the worldwide
importance of the UN in the field of human and social development.
To my mind, it should somehow stop dealing with the issue of war and
peace that is by nature far beyond its control. It is next to impossible in
the face of the newly-emerged doctrine of military unilateralism. It should

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