| Achieving Peace or Protecting Human Rights?: Conflicts Between Norms Regarding Ethnic Discrimination in the Dayton Peace Agreement Contributor(s): Nystuen, Gro (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004146520 ISBN-13: 9789004146525 Publisher: Brill Nijhoff OUR PRICE: $360.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: This book is a legal analysis of the Dayton Peace Agreement and its inherent contradictions between human rights and an ethnically based political system. As a member of the EU delegation in Dayton, the author explains some of the backgrounds for the peace agreement and she points to its potential for political reform. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Human Rights - Political Science | Peace - Law | International |
| Dewey: 341.48 |
| LCCN: 2005051054 |
| Series: Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library |
| Physical Information: 300 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Balkan |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Achieving peace or protecting human rights? Conflicts between norms regarding ethnic discrimination in the Dayton Peace Agreement" examines some of the legal issues pertaining to international settlements aiming at ending a war, finding political common ground between bitter enemies, and at the same time, protecting individual human rights. The author examines the Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in particular the constitutional framework which on the one hand secures everyone's human rights and protection from ethnic discrimination, but on the other hand sets up a political system which in fact discriminates on the basis of ethnicity. The author argues that it might have been consistent with international law (particularly the legal regimes of derogation and necessity) to agree on such a constitutional system at the time of the Dayton negotiations because the alternative was a high risk of continued war, but that a constitutional arrangement with clear human rights deficiencies should have been made temporary. The author points out that the ethnically-based constitutional system, for the time being, seems to prevail at the expense of the right to non-discrimination, and discusses various possibilities of altering this situation. |