Human Rights and the Issues of Self-Determination

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Introduction
In the last thirty years, there have been numerous articles who studied the violation of human rights. Moreover, there are thousands of papers on the consequences of those violations such as the authors and the victims of human rights violation, the war, the international intervention and how independent countries were born worldwide in the post-decolonized world. However, little has been done in presenting the causes that leads to the violation of the human rights, and apart from declarations, less than few actions have been taken in preventing human’s right violations to happen in the first place. Or how we could have new countries being born without violating anyone’s right, so that we can prevent the violation of human’s right in the future and settle disputes in non-conflict manners.
The end of the Second World War and the influence of the American hegemony in Europe shaped the borders of Europe. The decolonization process that was taking place around the world brought nationalism on its highest level of attention among societies, thus, we can say that the decolonization of third-world countries had an enormous effect for the European nations as well. With the rise of nationalism, ethnic and nation groups declared independence, formed governments, and created alliances with other governments by forming unions and federations with other sovereign states. However, the fall of the Soviet Union in the beginning of the 1990’s, and the American diplomatic influence in Europe during the mid-1990s, brought a new era in the Eastern Europe. The ethnic based nationalism got the attention of ethnic groups within those federations. Due to a higher level of education, minority groups acknowledged their rights and privileges, ...

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