Evolution of the human right to peace in the framework of the United Nations and Civil Society Organizations

The United Nations General Assembly, through Resolution 71/189 of 2016, recognized peace as a right that everyone should enjoy; however, its scope is reduced to the promotion and protection of human rights recognized in the two major covenants that enshrine civil, political, economic, social and cultu-ral rights; and to the full scope of development. The Resolution does not elevate peace to the category of a human right, nor does it grant it the content of this type of right; therefore, it does not respond to the needs and challenges presented by current inter-national law in dealing with international armed conflicts and structural and cultural violence. The objective of this article is to analyze the evolution of peace as a human right of solidarity within the framework of the United Nations Organization and the Organized Civil Society internationally. The documentary bibliographic methodology with cri-tical analysis was used to define the categories of analysis related to peace as a human right. The main conclusion is that peace, more than a right, has been recognized from the perspective of an ideal that must be achieved and this is not enough, peace needs to be constituted as a human right that can be protected individually and collectively, so that it can serve as a legal tool both as a precautionary and judicial tool.