RECONCILING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTUREThe end of the cold war has created a series of tentative attempts to define a new world order". So far, the only certainty is that the international community has entered a period of tremendous global transition that, at least for the time being, has created more social problem than solutions. The resulting confluence of peoples and cultures is an increasingly global, multicultural world brimming with tension, confusion and conflict in the process of