6 18. In conclusion, the present case, which reveals the new dimensions of the international protection of human rights, discloses moreover the great potential of the existing mechanisms of protection, resorted to in order to protect collectively the members of a whole community (suggesting an affinity with the class actions), even though the basis of action is the violation - or the probability or imminence of violation of individual rights. The embryo of an actio popularis under the American Convention lies rather in the mechanism of operation of the inter-State petitions, which may perhaps be utilized in the future, when the conscience is developed of the necessity to construct a true international ordre public based upon the respect for human rights. 19. The present case, moreover, brings clearly to the fore the obligations erga omnes of protection; such obligations can perfectly be vindicated by the operation of the existing conventional mechanisms for the application of the obligations erga omnes partes, it being incumbent in our days to develop their legal regime, with special attention to the positive obligations of the States Parties and the juridical consequences of the violations of such obligations. The juridical development of the obligations erga omnes partes of protection assumes an increasingly greater importance, above all in the face of the diversification of the sources (including the non-identified ones) of violations of human rights, - so evident in a situation of internal armed conflict as in the present case. Such situation, in its turn, requires the recognition of the effects of the American Convention vis-à-vis third parties (the Drittwirkung), besides revealing the approximations and convergences between the norms of the American Convention Americana and those of International Humanitarian Law, as well as the potential of action of the Provisional Measures of Protection in this context, in which they are endowed with a character, more than precautionary, truly tutelary, in safeguarding human rights. 20. But, beyond all these considerations, there is a key-point which transcends the domain of Law. It is difficult to avoid the impression that the present case appears as a microcosm of the brutalized world of our days; in all corners of the world, in differents latitudes, there are surely communities whose members, such as those of the Community of San José of Apartadó, aspire, above all, simply to live in peace. The case of the Community of Peace of San José of Apartadó reaveals the tragedy of the contemporary world, which, along with the considerable scientific-technological advances, appears increasingly more indifferent to the luck of the human beings. The present case of the Community of Peace of San José of Apartadó discloses, furthermore, one of the greatest truths of the human condition: that, from a truly communitarian perspective, the luck of one is ineluctably linked to the luck of the others. The International Law of Human Rights cannot remain indifferent to that. Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Judge Manuel E. Ventura-Robles Secretary