Addressing the possibility of normative conflicts around human rights: The concept of adaptation

This chapter provides the legitimacy of human rights as individual rights of all humans; and the justification of the universality of human rights. It deals with the legitimacy of the impact of the universality of human rights within religious and worldview-based communities. The chapter shows that the patterns of argumentation of different religious and worldview-based communities, or some groups within these communities, against human rights, will be assessed from an ethical perspective. It examines the model of "adaptation" as the way forward in understanding the correlation between religious and worldview-based communities and human rights dialogically in order to address the possibility of normative conflicts in a way which could contribute to the resolving of such conflicts. The status of human rights as individual rights can represent a source of normative conflicts. Human rights ask religious and worldview-based communities to contribute towards their realization – be it in their own context or in other contexts.