<With Teacher Issue PICK> 75 years since the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’... Humanity’s war history that broke taboos

2023-12-08 14:11:05

In celebration of World Human Rights Day, we again invited Professor Ryu Han-soo, who explained the core of the Russia-Ukraine war in last year's "Issue Pick with Teacher," to take a look into human history of war.

Professor Ryu Han-soo emphasizes that we should not simply conclude that 'war is bad', but that we must cool-headedly understand and analyze the nature of war in order to find clues to eliminating war.

Wars have taken on different aspects as times have changed. In the past, the scale of civilian casualties was small because wars were fought in one-on-one battles and mercenaries were hired, but in modern wars, the scale of civilian casualties has become incomparably greater than in the past. reported.

In this way, going through World War I and World War II, which were the worst times for many of humanity, voices were raised that the minimum human rights should be guaranteed to those affected by the war, and various opinions were converged, leading to the international community starting from the end of the 19th century to 1949. The Geneva Convention was agreed upon four times.

Professor Ryu concluded his lecture by emphasizing that although there are limits to the efforts of international organizations and there is no fundamental way to prevent war, all members of the international community must make efforts to make war a taboo. .

 

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