Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine. №4(53) 2025. P. 91-102

ISSN: 2707-6849   

UDC340.1

DOI https://doi.org/10.37566/2707-6849-2025-4(53)-9 

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Natalia KLESCHCHENKO,

Researcher, Department of Theory of State and Law,

Institute of State and Law named after V. M. Koretsky, NAS of Ukraine,

Candidate of Law

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4317-1470

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The right to peace as a component of the human rights system: challenges and prospects for development

Abstract 

In the modern world, which is in a state of deep security crises, military conflicts and global geopolitical transformations, the problem of ensuring peace is of particular importance. The following key challenges are identified that face the implementation and ensuring of the human right to peace:

1) new type of armed conflicts (hybrid wars in which cyberattacks, information operations and economic pressure are used, significantly complicate the maintenance of stability and security, creating multidimensional threats to the realization of the human right to peace);

2) the absence of an effective mechanism for the realization of the right to peace;

3) politicization of the right to peace - in conditions of geopolitical crisis, peace becomes a tool of propaganda, not a human right;

4) the spread of terrorism, extremism and internal instability;

5) massive human rights violations in conflict situations (genocide, deportations, sexual violence, torture;

6) insufficient recognition of the right to peace at the national level, as this right is not integrated into the system of education, legal culture or judicial protection);

7) information wars and disinformation, which distort the perception of conflicts and peace through propaganda, undermine trust in international law, the human rights system and the very concept of peace.

The prospects for the development of the right to peace in the human rights system are formulated, which include: 1) normative and legal development (consists in its gradual consolidation in international treaties, integration of relevant norms into national legal systems, as well as in the formation of effective mechanisms for the implementation and protection of this right at the national and international levels); 2) institutional (provides for a review of the powers of international organizations in order to more actively monitor and respond to violations of the right to peace and strengthen coordination between them); 3) conceptual changes (provide for a departure from an exclusively collective approach to the right to peace to the understanding that peace is a personal, legally protected right of each person); 4) practical prospects (include preventive diplomacy and peacekeeping operations aimed not only at ending conflicts, but also at preventing their occurrence by eliminating the root causes of instability).

Keywords: right to peace, human rights, human rights system, just peace, justice, rule of law, security.

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Suggested Citation:  Kleshchenko, N. (2025).  The right to peace as a component of the human rights system: challenges and prospects for development. Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine, 4 (53), 103–111. https://doi.org/10.37566/2707-6849-2025-4(53)-9

Date of first submission of the article to the publication: 15.01.2026

Date of acceptance of the article for publication after review: 17.03.2026

Date of publication (publication):09.04.2026