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The International Court of Justice controversially found in 2010 that the Kosovo declaration of independence did not violate international law. This book assesses its context and legacy, investigating if this judgement was unique to Kosovo, or if it set a precedent.

The purpose of this volume is dual. The first is to provide information about the question of the role that doctrines and practices of international law have played in the emergence and persistence of the phenomenon of socio-cultural fragmentation, and therefore of inter-group conflict, within African states. The second is to provide original thought about the ways in which, prompted by the emergent turn in our time to minority and group rights, international law and multilateral African states have begun the long journey toward modifying those doctrines and practices that have led to such unfortunate results, and have thereby begun to make very valuable contributions to the effort to prevent and/or reduce the incidence of inter-group strife in specific African contexts. The book is not, however, limited in scope by its utilisation of Africa as a case study. The book's core is based on analysis of traditional and contemporary international legal doctrines and practices, their effects in specific contexts, as well as on the role of multilateral institutions in the prevention of internecine conflict within established states. It is hoped that, with the use of African states as case studies, the book will be a contribution to the advancement of scholarly knowledge regarding the general question of the relationship among the doctrines of international law, the activities of multilateral institutions, and the management of the problems of fragmentation and internecine strife within established states the world over. This volume is relevant to international lawyers, specialists in international politics, diplomats, theorists, minority and group rights scholars, historians, and human rights activists in general. It is particularly relevant to the African studies specialist, the statesman and the diplomat

Israel's construction of a separation wall through the West Bank and East Jerusalem represents the latest stage in Zionism's attempts to resolve its 'native problem'. By confining Palestinians to a series of disconnected cantons, it deprives them of political and territorial contiguity. But the wall also embodies a demographic rationale: it is the threat of a majority Arab population under Israel's charge that determines the wall's route and its exclusion of areas where Palestinians are concentrated. The logic is one of a unilateral imposition of Israel's borders, bound up with the deferral of final status negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. Thus marginalised, the Authority is reduced to a 'Palestinian state with provisional borders' - not a sovereign state, but a municipal provider of services. Following the finding of the International Court of Justice on the wall's illegality, the challenge for the Palestinians is how to develop an effective strategy of resistance to the wall and the occupation of which it is part.