The Fundamental Right to Peace in the Constitution

• Autores: Landa Arroyo, Cesar, Landa Arroyo, César Rodrigo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Internacional
• Repositorio: Revista Peruana de Derecho Internacional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs2.72.167.226.102:article/837
• Enlace del recurso: https://revista.spdi.org.pe/RPDI/article/view/837
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Constitución; paz como valor; principio y derecho; jurisprudencia constitucional e internacional sobre la paz; pacificación; Constitution; peace as a value; principle and right; constitutional and international jurisprudence on peace; pacification

The first modern constitutions emerged after the anti-colonial and liberation wars against European monarchies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, under universal liberal principles of defending the human person rather than the State; insofar as the State was a necessary evil, as Rousseau believed. Thus, for a perpetual peace it was necessary to place the human person —their dignity, autonomy, and freedom— as the universal values enabling States to establish a new national and universal order based on human rights, according to Kant.