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- Title
The Right to Self-Determination of Ethnic Groups: The Canton of Jura in Switzerland.
- Authors
Reuter, Tina Kempin
- Abstract
The right to self-determination of peoples has become interconnected with the rights of ethnic groups, including the right to determine the group's own affairs and to participate in the decision-making process of the state. This article argues that a "people-centred" understanding of the right to self-determination is evolving in international law in response to emerging claims of non-traditional non-state actors such as ethnic groups. The case study of the establishment and continuing negotiations over the boundaries of the canton of Jura in Switzerland serves as an illustration of such a "people-centred" approach to self-determination. Findings suggest that the approach taken by the Bernese and Jurassians can serve as a role model for other ethnic groups in constitutional democracies with territorial claims.
- Subjects
JURA (Switzerland); ETHNIC groups; DEMOCRACY; CIVIL rights; INTERNATIONAL law
- Publication
International Journal on Minority & Group Rights, 2016, Vol 23, Issue 2, p250
- ISSN
1385-4879
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1163/15718115-02302005