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- Title
Peace Agreements as International Legal Acts Protecting National Minorities: The Scope Ratione Personae.
- Authors
Czepek, Vita; Karska, Elżbieta
- Abstract
The issue of the protection of national minorities is regulated by acts of international law, frequently arising from international agreements that have been concluded to end armed conflicts or to regulate directly their consequences. Peace treaties concluded between states are governed by the rules set out in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. More and more peace agreements are, however, concluded by non-state actors. As indicated in Article 3 of the Convention, it cannot be excluded that these too would be international agreements, having effects in the sphere of international law. Such acts are concluded, inter alia, by insurgents or belligerents. In some cases, agreements ending noninternational armed conflicts are concluded by domestic entities that are not subjects of international law. Such acts may reflect solutions that have been adopted as standards in international practice and in the provisions of international law. These do not necessarily have to be legally binding standards. They can also be framework solutions, including measures relating to the protection of national minorities, which are formulated and offered as proposals for specific regulations.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL law; INTERNATIONAL obligations; WAR; TREATIES; BIG data
- Publication
Bialystok Legal Studies / Bialostockie Studia Prawnicze, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 5, p75
- ISSN
1689-7404
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15290/bsp.2021.26.05.05