URSPRUNGSFOLK OCH RATTEN TILL SJÅLV-BESTÅMMANDE: Sjalvbestammandedoktrinen mot en ny mening?

Abstract

Ulf Johansson Dahre: Indigenous peoples
 and the right to self-determination: selfdetermination
 towards a new meaning?
 The beginning of the last decade of the 20th
 century has seen the end of a distinet era in
 international relations. This era, encompassing
 the years 1945-1990, was the era of decolonization,
 in which self-determination
 was defined or understood in relation to decolonization
 in the third world. This era also
 brought a distinet definition of self-determination.
 Entitled to self-determination were
 the peoples of European overseas colonies.
 Minorities and indigenous peoples excluded.
 However, a redefinition, or an extension
 of the concept, is ocurring. It is likely that
 self-determination will become a legal right
 of indigenous peoples, but not explicitly recognizing
 secession, but a right to political
 and social participation within the existing
 States. In the transition from colonial to postcolonial
 contexts, self-determination is becoming
 a means of conflict resolution and a
 way of pushing for democratic rights, also
 for indigenous peoples.