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Ethnic cleansing : theoretical issues and concerns and new interpretation -- Historical background : evolution of Serb politics--from the state of Serbia to the single Serb state -- The frame for the picture of ethnic cleansing : common agenda, state and policy -- Ethnic cleansing : practice and its constitutive elements -- Murder as part of ethnic cleansing--attack on co-existence, past and future -- Detention camps and practices in the camps : moral attack on the victims -- Concealment and destruction of evidence : destroying the past -- Bringing ethnic cleansing home : crisis staff--key agent of destruction -- Ordinary Serbs' complicity in ethnic cleansing : no ordinary crime -- Ethnic cleansing in retrospect and some conclusions

This book confronts the problem of the legal uncertainty surrounding the definition and classification of ethnic cleansing, exploring whether the use of the term ethnic cleansing constitutes a valuable contribution to legal understanding and praxis. The premise underlying this book is that acts of ethnic cleansing are, first and foremost, a criminal issue and must therefore be precisely placed within the context of the international law order. In particular, it addresses the question of the specificity of the act and its relation to existing categories of international crime, exploring the relationship between ethnic cleansing and genocide, but also extending to war crimes and crimes against humanity. The book goes on to show how the current understanding of ethnic cleansing singularly fails to provide an efficient instrument for identification, and argues that the act, in having its own distinctive characteristics, conditions and exigencies, ought to be granted its own classification as a specific independent crime. Clotilde Pegorier is a Research Fellow in European, International and Public Law at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Publisher's note.

"Using a new approach to ethnicity that underscores its relative territoriality, Zeynep Bulutgil brings together previously separate arguments that focus on domestic and international factors to offer a coherent theory of what causes ethnic cleansing. The author argues that domestic obstacles based on non-ethnic cleavages usually prevent ethnic cleansing whereas territorial conflict triggers this policy by undermining such obstacles. The empirical analysis combines statistical evaluation based on original data with comprehensive studies of historical cases in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Bosnia in the 1990s. The findings demonstrate how socio-economic cleavages curb radical factions within dominant groups whereas territorial wars strengthen these factions and pave the way for ethnic cleansing. The author further explores the theoretical and empirical extensions in the context of Africa. Its theoretical novelty and broad empirical scope make this book highly valuable to scholars of comparative and international politics alike"--

This paper analyses the concept of majimboism in Kenya, which essentially calls for the division of the country into semi-independent tribal states. The concept was first presented at the second Lancaster House Constitutional Conference in England in the prelude to independence, and later as a way to stem the demands for pluralism in Kenya since 1991. The author pays particular attention to latter-day majimboism and its consequences on the political and economic set-up for Kenya. This version of majimboism is especially critical since the calls for its restoration were followed by violence, which has led to the deaths of an estimated 1,500 people and the displacement of more than 300,000 others from their homes in the Rift Valley, and has taken a form of ethnic cleansing. The paper critically discusses this ethnic cleansing, attempting to link the violence to the calls for majimboism. Finally, the paper discusses the manner in which the KANU regime has previously amended the Constitution as this is the proposed and most likely way through which it will attempt to impose majimboism in Kenya. (DÜI-Hff)

Ethnic cleansing and return as geopolitics -- Yugoslavia's violent dissolution -- A distinctive geopolitical space -- Polarization and poison -- Ethnic cleansing -- Persistence ambivalence -- Early battles over returns -- Building capacity -- Rule of law -- Localized geopolitical struggles -- Did ethnic cleaning succeed? -- List of interviews