Minorities, peoples, and self-determination : essays in honour of Patrick Thornberry / / edited by Nazila Ghanea and Alexandra Xanthaki.

• TeilnehmendeR: Ghanea-Hercock, Nazila.; Xanthaki, Alexandra.; Thornberry, Patrick.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xviii, 352 p.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This volume presents new thinking on minority and indigenous rights in international law. Debates that receive attention in this volume include self-determination, definitional issues, collective rights and rights to natural resources. Other chapters unravel challenges that have not attracted sufficient attention to date, such as multiculturalism, integration, colour as a ground for discrimination and the economic and social rights of minorities. The volume also looks critically at the work of the World Bank, the African Union, the Council of Europe and the OSCE in this arena. Finally, case studies highlight the regrettable similarities in the suffering of groups in different parts of the world as well as the stark contrast between state claims and their actual practice.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction and Acknowledgements -- SECTION I. SELF-DETERMINATION AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES -- Chapter 1 What are Indigenous Peoples? -- Chapter 2 The Right to Self-Determination: Meaning and Scope -- Chapter 3 Self-Determination and the Use of Force -- Chapter 4 Conceptual Difficulties and the Right to Indigenous Self-Determination -- Chapter 5 Indigenous Peoples' Rights to Land and Natural Resources -- Chapter 6 The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples -- Chapter 7 Economic Solutions to Political Problems: The Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts -- SECTION II. MINORITIES -- Chapter 8 Individuals, Collectivities and Rights -- Chapter 9 Minorities, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, and Peoples: Definitions of Terms as a Matter of International Law -- Chapter 10 Integration and Separation: Legal and Political Choices in Implementing Minority Rights -- Chapter 11 Repressing Minorities and Getting Away with It? A Consideration of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Chapter 12 Multiculturalism and Its Discontents -- Chapter 13 Colour as a Ground of Discrimination -- Chapter 14 The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities: Pyrometer, Prophylactic, Pyrosvestis -- Chapter 15 Council of Europe Policies Concerning the Protection of Linguistic Minorities and the Justiciability of Minority Rights -- Chapter 16 The African Union and the Prospects for Minority Protection -- Chapter 17 The Kurdish Question in Turkey: Historical Roots, Domestic Concerns and International Law -- Bibliography.