Syllabus/achievement requirements

Articles marked with an asterisc (*) are compiled in a compendium which can be purchased from Gnist Akademika bookstore (Domus Nova), Law faculty.

 

Required reading:

Aspinall, Edward: 'The Construction of Grievance. Natural Resources and Identity in a Separatist Conflict', Journal of Conflict Resolution 51 (6): 950-972, December 2007. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022002707307120

Binningsb?, Helga Malmin, ‘Power sharing, peace and democracy: Any obvious relationships?, International Area Studies review, 2013, 16 (1) pp. 89-112 (23 pp.). http://ias.sagepub.com/content/16/1/89.full.pdf+html

Butensch?n, Nils, “Israeli Ethnocracy and the Israeli-Palestinian Citizenship Complex”, in Nils Butensch?n and Roel Meijer (eds.) 2018, The Middle East in Transition. The Centrality of Citizenship. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing pp 27-48.  (21 pp)  https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781788111126/9781788111126.00008.xml

Butensch?n, Nils, ?yvind Stiansen and K?re Vollan, Power-Sharing in Conflict-Ridden Societies. Challenges for Building Peace and Democratic Society, London: Ashgate, 2015, ch 2, 12 (48 pp). (WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN CANVAS)

*Chanock, Martin, “Culture and human rights: orientalising, occidentalising and authenticity”, in Mahmood Mamdani (ed.), Beyond Rights Talk and Cultural Talks. Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture, Cape Town: David Phillips Publishers, 2000, ch 1. (22 pp.)

Ekern, Stener, “Between Relations and Rights: Writing Constitutions in Mayan Guatemala”, The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2018, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07329113.2018.1434724. (20 pp)

*Roger Cotterrell, Law, Culture and Society, Ch 1 (Law and Social Theory), pp 15-28, Ch 4 (A Legal Concept of Community), pp 65-78, London: Ashgate, 2006, 28 pp.

*Derman, Bill and Anne Hellum. “Land, Identity and Violence in Zimbabwe", in Bill Derman, Rie Odgaard and Espen Sjaastad(eds.), Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa, James Curry 2007, pp 161-186. (25 pp.)

Dinstein, Yoram, ?Autonomy Regimes and International Law?, Villanova Law Review, Vol. 56(3) (2011), pp. 437-453. (16 pp). http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=false&handle=hein.journals/vllalr56&page=437&collection=journals

Eide, Asbj?rn, “Citizenship and International Human Rights Law” in Nils A. Butensch?n, Uri Davis, Manuel Hassassian (eds.), Citizenship and the State in the Middle East, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000, pp. 88-122. (35 pp.) http://www.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=C9TkD3ugwEUC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=nils+butensch%C3%B6n&ots=5HAUerJ4td&sig=pZFHo7QAapQYRMd2QJ9JHItD8_s#v=onepage&q&f=false

*Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, Ethnicity & Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives, 3rd edition, London: Pluto Press 2010, ch 1-6. (146 pp.)

*Gellner, David, “From group rights to individual rights and back: Nepalese struggles over culture and identity” in Cowan, Jane K, Marie Bénédicte Dembour and Richard A. Wilson: Culture and Rights. Anthropological Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp 177-200. (23 pp).

International Crisis Group, the North Caucasus: The Challenge of Integration (I), Ethnicity and Conflict, Europe Report No. 220, 19 October, 2012, 41 pp. https://d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net/220-the-north-caucasus-the-challenges-of-integration-i-ethnicity-and-conflict.pdf

Lijphart, A, “Majority rule versus democracy in deeply divided societies”, Politikon, vol. 4, 1977, no. 2, pp. 113-126. (14 pp.)  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589347708704717?

https://epdf.pub/majority-rule-versus-democracy-in-deeply-divided-societies.html

Mancini, Susana, “Rethinking the boundaries of democratic secession: Liberalism, nationalism, and the right of minorities to self-determination, International Journal of Constitutional Law, July-October 2008, (26 pp.) http://icon.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/3-4/553.full.pdf+html

*Scheinin, Martin, “How to Resolve Conflicts between Individual and Collective Rights?”, in Martin Scheinin and Reetta Toivanen (eds.), Rethinking Non-Discrimination and Minority Rights, ?bo/Turku: Institute for Humar Rights, ?bo Akademi, 2004, pp 2189-38. (20 pp).

Tamale, Sylvia, "Confronting the Politics of Non-Conforming Sexualities in Africa", African Studies Review, Vol 56 (2): 31-45, 2013, 12 pp. https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v056/56.2.tamale.pdf

Tusalem, Rollin F., ?Ethnic Minority Governments, Democracy and Human Rights, Politics & Polity, Vol 43, no 4 (2015), pp 502-537. (35 pp). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/polp.12125/full

Weller, Marc, “Settling self-determination conflicts: Recent developments” European Journal of International Law, February 2009, Vol. 20, 1 (49 pp.) http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/1/111.full.pdf+html?sid=33fd6249-f5f4-4e4e-aeba-cc5df9d08c63

Zyberi, Gentian, “Self-determination through the lens of the International Court of Justice”, Netherlands International Law Review, vol. LVI (2009) pp 429-453. (24 pp.). http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6864144&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0165070X0900429X

 

Total: 612 pages.

 

Recommended Reading:

Amit, Vered, “Reconceptualising Community” in Vered Amit (ed.) Realizing Community. Concepts, social relationships and sentiments. London: Routledge 2002, pp 1-19. (19 pp.). Available online via Oria.no

Bassiouni, Cherif M., Perspectives on International Criminal Justice, Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol 50 (2) (2010), pp. 269-323. (54 pp). http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=false&handle=hein.journals/vajint50&page=269&collection=journals

Chatham House, The Role of the Nation-State in Addressing Global Challenges. Japan-UK Perspectives, Conference report, March 2015, 39 pp.

Zyberi, Gentian, ‘The International Court of Justice and the Rights of Peoples and Minorities’, in Christian Tams and James Sloan: The Development of International Law by the International Court of Justice, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp 327 – 352 (25 pp.). Available online via Oria.no

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