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Taking Ethno-Cultural Diversity Seriously in Constitutional Design: A Theory of Minority Rights for Addressing Africa's Multi-Ethnic Challenge
Contributor(s): Dersso (Author)
ISBN: 9004205357     ISBN-13: 9789004205352
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
OUR PRICE:   $177.65  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Law | International
- Law | Constitutional
- Political Science | Human Rights
Dewey: 342.608
LCCN: 2012041543
Series: Studies in International Minority and Group Rights
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.5" (1.30 lbs) 280 pages
 
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Despite decades of nation-building exercise, ethnic-based claims for substantive equality, justice and equitable political inclusion and socio-economic order continue to result in communal rivalries. These are claims that define and represent the issue of minorities in Africa, of which these conflicts are manifestations. Although ethnic conflicts in Africa have been a subject of a large number of studies, the potential and role of norms on minority rights to address claims that ethno-cultural groups raise has not received the attention it deserves. Based on materials from normative political theory and international human rights law and using an empirical and prescriptive analysis, this book defends a robust system of minority rights built around culture, equality and self-determination. This is employed to elaborate an adequate constitutional design providing policy frameworks (multilingual language policy, recognition and affirmation of cultural diversity, ), structures (that ensure just representation and participation of members of all groups) and norms (that guarantee substantive equality and the rights to language, religion and culture). The study then proffers two cases studies (South Africa and Ethiopia) to ascertain how such constitutional design might be translated into actual policy frameworks, institutions and norms