Human Right to Security: Preventing Violent Extremism with Vasili Grossman

This study addresses the human right to security from the perspective of the Preventing Violent Extremism. The Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) is a strategy within the United Nations framework focused on strengthening respect for human rights. The PVE addresses violent extremism that leads to terrorism from the perspective of prevention and human rights. The most relevant aspect of this perspective is its innovation to guarantee security as a human right. Moreover, the PVE arises as a response to anti-terrorist security policies that are considered insufficient to eradicate this phenomenon. The PVE action measures, therefore, go beyond what is strictly known as security policy. Education and culture, in this sense, have an important role in the PVE, as highlighted by UNESCO. The analysis that is developed exposes a proposal for a dialogical space that applies the measure of education, culture, and awareness through literature. Thus, based on the dialogue with Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, we reflect on violent extremism and human rights.