The Research On The Necessity And Feasibility Of Protecting The Rights Of Minorities In NIMBY Conflict

In a democratic society, any kind of social system should as far as possible to meet the needs of every member. However, due to the individuals in the group, and there are differences and conflicts of interest between values of individuals. In order to resolve different preferences, the majority of people chosen the democratic system of minority-subordinated-to-majority, and is also considered the best of democracy in the world. It has been advocated by most countries and regions of the world. However, the majority should only reflect in the decision-making process, it does not mean the minority must be wrong, and the majority must be correct. We can not deny the rights of the minority in the political and economic field, as well as the interests belonging to them, and also to recognize and protect it legally and politically.NIMBY conflict is generated because the services of public facilities affect the interests of the minority, under the Chinese traditional ideas and the ruling way, government governance mode is only pay attention to the majority opinion. The majority accepted that to sacrifice personal interests for the benefit of the community. When the interests of the conflict between individual and the majority of people’s interests appeared, the minority is often ignored. But along with the market economy increasing, the degree of opening of countries continue to deepen, social development has the trend of diversification, governance way changing, more and more attention has been paid on the various way of public interests opinion expression; in public awareness of their own interests, initiative, to personal interests demand unceasing enhancement, thus, makes China’s occurrence of NIMBY conflict continued upward, in recent years, many domestic public facilities have similar disputes. NIMBY phenomenon in our social life is already serious problems, and will become increasingly prominent, had been unavoidable. The current research in NIMBY phenomenon is relatively small, the government for public facilities decision stage is also no precedent for full consideration factors NIMBY conflicts, only to face the NIMBY response after conflict, but also tend to be the appropriate public facilities were postponed or shelved, to quell the conflict and maintain stability. In today’s society, we should like to focus on maintenance of the rights of the majority and attention to the interests of the minority.In this paper, through the NIMBY phenomenon to explain how the conflict to protect the rights of minorities. The first part of this paper is an introduction, including the issues raised, the significance and methods, literature review, research and other purposes. The second part is the case analysis, case analysis is divided into case studies on neighboring countries and abroad. The third part is mainly based on NIMBY conflict under democratic governance. Study the rights violations in NIMBY between majority and minority. The fourth, fifth, and the sixth part introduces Rawls, Dworkin and Amartya Sen’s theory’s Enlightenment for governance and protection of the minority’s rights.