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In Ethnic Identity and Minority Protection: Designation, Discrimination, and Brutalization, Thomas W. Simon examines a new framework for considering ethnic conflicts. In contrast to the more traditional theories of justice, Simon's theory of injustice shifts focus away from group identity toward group harms, effectively making many problems, such as how to define minorities in international law, dramatically more manageable.
Simon argues that instead of promoting legislative devices like proportional representation for minorities, it is more fruitful to seek adjudicative solutions to racial and ethnic-related conflicts. For example, resources could be shifted to quasi-judicial human-rights treaty bodies that have adopted an injustice approach. This injustice approach provides the foundation for Kosovo's case for remedial secession, and helps to sort out the competing entitlement claims of Malays in different countries.
Indeed, the priority of Thomas W. Simon's Ethnic Identity and Minority Protection is to ensure the tales of designation and discrimination told at the beginning of the work do not become the stories of brutalization told at the end. In short, the challenge tackled in this text is to assure that reason reigns over hate.
Contents
Preface
Part I: Stories of Designation
Chapter One: Balkan Tales
Part II: A Theory of Injustice
Chapter Two: Injustice Trumps Justice
Part III: Group Types
Chapter Three: The Problems of Race
Chapter Four: Ethnicity, An Outsider's View
Chapter Five: Minorities Defined
Chapter Six: Citizenship as a Weapon
Part Four: Institutions and Solutions
Chapter Seven: The Judiciary versus the Legislature
Chapter Eight: The United Nations on Minorities
Chapter Nine: Remedial Secession
Part Five: Case Studies
Chapter Ten: Malays in Malaysia, South Africa, and the Philippines
Part Six: Stories of Brutalization
Chapter Eleven: Hate Debates
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
