1. Introduction; Part I. Human Rights and Democracy in Deeply Divided Places: 2. The politics of ethno-national conflicts; 3. The limits of partition; 4. Limitations of human rights; Part II. Revisiting Assumptions: 5. Rethinking democracy; 6. Human rights versus power-sharing; Part III. Collective Equality: 7. Collective equality: theoretical foundations for the law of peace; 8. Collective equality and sustaining peace; 9. Collective equality and international law; Conclusion.