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Taking ethno-cultural diversity seriously in constitutional design : a theory of minority rights for addressing Africa's multiethnic challenge /

Using a legal and multidisciplinary approach towards empirical and prescriptive analysis of contemporary minority rights standards, this book defends and elaborates a robust minority rights framework for articulating a constitutional design responsive to the claims of ethno-cultural groups in Africa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dersso, Solomon A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012.
Colección:Studies in international minority and group rights ; 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The issue of minorities in Africa : describing its context and understanding its nature
  • The issue of minorities in the political and constitutional discourse and practice of post-colonial Africa
  • The normative bases for constitutional accommodation of ethno-cultural diversity in Africa : the three components of the minority rights framework
  • Towards a multicultural constitutional framework : the institutional dimensions of the minority rights framework
  • South Africa's constitutional design for the accommodation of diversity
  • The case of Ethiopia's ethnic federalism
  • Conclusion, findings, and final observations.