Abstract
"We must do more to prevent conflicts happening at all. Most conflicts happen in [?] countries, especially those which are badly governed or where power and wealth are very unfairly distributed between ethnic or religious groups. So the best way to prevent conflict is promote political arrangements in which all groups are fairly represented, combined with human rights, minority rights and broad-based economic development." said the former Secretary General of the UN on the 3rd of April 2000 in the introduction of his Millennium Report. In this way, he showed the strategic role of the minority rights protection. This statement tallies with the various declarations and documents adopted by the UN and the EU in favor of the minority rights, there is obviously an increasing will to protect them and a consciousness of the impact of the violations of these rights. However history shows that goodwill is usually not sufficient to solve this type of continuing issues.
