Right to Self Determination in Globalization Era
Right to Self Determination in Globalization Era

Summary/Abstract: Conflicts are not modern. Through the quandary of first and second world wars, states embraced norms tomitigate reoccurrence of conflict intra and interstate. From the Montevideo convention on rights and duties of states 1933,Westphalia treaty 1648, to the universal declaration of human right 1948. While these global norms grant stateslegitimacy more so acknowledge its sovereignty, it inter alia grants protection of right and choices of indigenous peoplein determining how and who governs them “right to self-determination”. However, there is a prevalence of human rightabuses, reinforced by conflict created by these norms. While the state strives to protect their sovereignty, indigenouspeople clamor for the protection of their right to self-determination. Through appraising the Catalonian and the Biafransecessionist struggle this paper acknowledges state sovereignty. However, argues that rights to self-determination ofindigenous people should take precedence over sovereignty.

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