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Ethnic Identity and Minority Protection
Designation, Discrimination, and Brutalization
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2012
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In Ethnic Identity and Minority Protection: Designation, Discrimination, and Brutalization, Thomas W. Simon examines a new framework for considering ethnic conflicts. In contrast to the more traditional theories of justice, Simon’s theory of injustice shifts focus away from group identity toward group harms, effectively making many problems, such as how to define minorities in international law, dramatically more manageable.
Simon argues that instead of promoting legislative devices like proportional representation for minorities, it is more fruitful to seek adjudicative solutions to racial and ethnic-related conflicts. For example, resources could be shifted to quasi-judicial human-rights treaty bodies that have adopted an injustice approach. This injustice approach provides the foundation for Kosovo’s case for remedial secession, and helps to sort out the competing entitlement claims of Malays in different countries.
Indeed, the priority of Thomas W. Simon’s Ethnic Identity and Minority Protection is to ensure the tales of designation and discrimination told at the beginning of the work do not become the stories of brutalization told at the end. In short, the challenge tackled in this text is to assure that reason reigns over hate.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4980-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4982-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
315
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Contents No access
Preface No access
1 Balkan Tales No access
2 Injustice Trumps Justice No access
3 The Problems of Race No access
4 Ethnicity, An Outsider’s View No access
5 Minorities Defined No access
6 Citizenship as a Weapon No access
7 The Judiciary versus the Legislature No access
8 The United Nations on Minorities No access
9 Remedial Secession No access
10 Malays in Malaysia, South Africa, and the Philippines No access
11 Hate Debates No access
Bibliography No access Pages 279 - 296
Index No access Pages 297 - 314
About the Author No access Pages 315 - 315
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