- Title
- Self-determination claimant groups and the creation of international norms
- Creator
- Maguire, Amy
- Relation
- Changing Actors in International Law p. 75-100
- Relation
- Developments in International Law 74
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004424159_005
- Publisher
- Brill
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Some of this century's most pressing challenges, from forced human migration to the fragmentation of alliances, have greatest impact on vulnerable populations with weak or no international legal standing. This chapter responds to that dilemma by proposing the establishment of a new category of non-State actor with international legal personality - self-determination claimant groups. The chapter considers how the status, capacity and responsibilities of self-determination claimants could be defined across three sub-categories: (1) Groups asserting self-determination in ways that challenge established borders or understandings of sovereignty; (2) currently self-determining populations facing existential biophysical and socio-economic threats from climate change impacts; and (3) novel potential self-determination claimants, including refugee populations and internally displaced peoples. Defining such self-determination claimant groups as international legal persons may better enable the contributions of rights claimants to international norm creation.
- Subject
- self-determination claimants; refugee populations; internally displaced peoples; international legal standing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1439831
- Identifier
- uon:41047
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789004424142
- Language
- eng
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