Achieving peace or protecting human rights? : : conflicts between norms regarding ethnic discrimination in the Dayton Peace Agreement / / by Gro Nystuen.
"Achieving peace or protecting human rights? Conflicts between norms regarding ethnic discrimination in the Dayton Peace Agreement" examines some of the legal issues pertaining to international settlements aiming at ending a war, finding political common ground between bitter enemies, and...
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Superior document: | Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ; v. 23 |
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Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ;
v. 23. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
Notes: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oslo, 2004. |
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Summary: | "Achieving peace or protecting human rights? Conflicts between norms regarding ethnic discrimination in the Dayton Peace Agreement" examines some of the legal issues pertaining to international settlements aiming at ending a war, finding political common ground between bitter enemies, and at the same time, protecting individual human rights. The author examines the Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in particular the constitutional framework which on the one hand secures everyone's human rights and protection from ethnic discrimination, but on the other hand sets up a political system which in fact discriminates on the basis of ethnicity. The author argues that it might have been consistent with international law (particularly the legal regimes of derogation and necessity) to agree on such a constitutional system at the time of the Dayton negotiations because the alternative was a high risk of continued war, but that a constitutional arrangement with clear human rights deficiencies should have been made temporary. The author points out that the ethnically-based constitutional system, for the time being, seems to prevail at the expense of the right to non-discrimination, and discusses various possibilities of altering this situation. |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261) and index. |
ISBN: | 1280868678 9786610868674 1429427175 9047408292 1433704552 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | by Gro Nystuen. |