The right to peace: modern approaches to legal understanding

Abstract

The article defines the right to peace in the context of the third generation of human rights, i.e. rights, the subject of which is society as a whole. It is determined that the right to peace is an international collective right, which is based on ensuring the prerequisites for a safe, stable, and dignified life of human societies away from the dangers and disasters of wars, as well as the consequences and dangers of armed conflicts, in the light of the basic requirements that arise from the idea of ensuring achieving security of human rights, non-violence, achieving development, environmental protection and other elements that cannot be separated from the right to peace.
 The author lists the characteristics of the right to peace as a third-generation right, namely: the international nature of the organization, collectivity, protection from the provisions of international law, and subsidiarity compared to the rights of other generations.
 The essential characteristics of the right to peace are determined, in particular the interrelationship of peace with other fundamental human rights, as well as the interdependence of all states in the aspect of ensuring the right to peace. The author proves the thesis that the right to peace is the duty of all states because the existence of a conflict between two parties determines the disturbance of peace and stability beyond the borders of the conflicting parties.
 The means of ensuring the right to peace and measures taken by the United Nations to maintain and establish peace and security, i.e. effective and collective measures to prevent and eliminate threats to peace and to achieve it by peaceful means and in accordance with the principles of justice and international law are described. The characteristics of peacekeeping operations and monitoring missions, the latter of which took place for settlement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, are given.