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HUMR5501-07 Ethnic Challenges to the Nation-State

HUMR5501-07 Ethnic Challenges to the Nation-State. Introduction. Course content. This course addresses challenges faced by States with cultural/ethnic heterogeneous populations within their borders. Normative Political Legal. Methodological design.

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HUMR5501-07 Ethnic Challenges to the Nation-State

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  1. HUMR5501-07Ethnic Challenges to the Nation-State Introduction N. Butenschøn 2007

  2. Course content • This course addresses challenges faced by States with cultural/ethnic heterogeneous populations within their borders. • Normative • Political • Legal N. Butenschøn 2007

  3. Methodological design • Multi-disciplinary and comparative perspectives on legal and political orders N. Butenschøn 2007

  4. The human rights perspective • How these legal and political orders relate to the standards of the international human rights system. Particular learning outcomes: • Collective (aspects of) rights in international human rights law; • Challenges for their implementation at the national level; • The formation of group identity; • Problems and tensions in guaranteeing the implementation of individual rights while considering group claims. N. Butenschøn 2007

  5. Important concepts • Democray • Ethnicity • Nationalism • Autonomy • Federalism • Citizenship • Self-determination • Indigenous rights • Non-discrimination • Etc. N. Butenschøn 2007

  6. Relevance for the MA-program • An exercise in multidisciplinarity • Addresses ongoing discourses on • Individual vs collective rights; • Universal vs particularistic rights; • Political vs ESC rights; • The role of the state in ”conflict zone” between majorities and minorities. N. Butenschøn 2007

  7. Lectures • 1. Tuesday 21. August: Introduction to the course. Nils Butenschøn and Maria Lundberg • 2. Thursday 23. August: Political responses I. Nils Butenschøn • 3. Tuesday 4. September: Political Responses II. Nils Butenschøn • 4. Tuesday 11. September: Theories of group formation Kjetil Tronvoll • 5. Tuesday 2. October: Legal Reponses I Maria Lundberg • 6. Tuesday 9. October: Legal Reponses II Maria Lundberg • 7. Tuesday 16. October: Legal Reponses III Maria Lundberg N. Butenschøn 2007

  8. Seminars • Case studies; • Student presentations – three students on each case. Organised by students/Bente; • Presented to class and in-house expert. N. Butenschøn 2007

  9. Seminars/Student presentations • Tuesday 6. November: China Maria Lundberg • Friday 9. November: Ethiopia Kjetil Tronvoll • Tuesday 13. November: Israel/Palestine Nils Butenschøn • Friday 16. November: Indonesia Knut Asplund N. Butenschøn 2007

  10. Exam: Written assignment • Handed out 11 September; • To be submitted 1 December; • Apply a legal approach, a social science approach, or a combination; • Must address themes in the required reading list and at least one of the empirical cases discussed in the seminars. N. Butenschøn 2007

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