Human Rights

Collective Equality: Human Rights and Democracy in Ethno-National Conflicts

By Limor Yehuda
New Arrival Cambridge University Press June 2026

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9781009088374
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
June 2026
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Over the last decades international and regional human rights norms have been increasingly applied to constitutional provisions, revealing significant tensions between primary political arrangements, such as power-sharing institutions, and human rights norms. This book argues that these tensions, generally framed as a peace versus justice dilemma, are built on an individualistic conception of justice that fails to account for the empirical reality in such places characterized by ethnically-based political exclusion and inequalities. By introducing the concept of 'collective equality' as a new theoretical basis for the law of peace this timely book proposes a new approach for dealing with the tensions between peace related arrangements and human rights. Through principled, pragmatic, and legal reasoning the book develops a new paradigm that captures more accurately what equality and human rights mean and require in the context of ethno-national conflicts and provides potent guidance for advancing justice and peace in such places.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Part I. Human Rights and Democracy in Deeply Divided Places:
2. The politics of ethno-national conflicts
3. The limits of partition
4. Limitations of human rights

Part II. Revisiting Assumptions:
5. Rethinking democracy
6. Human rights versus power-sharing

Part III. Collective Equality:
7. Collective equality: theoretical foundations for the law of peace
8. Collective equality and sustaining peace
9. Collective equality and international law
Conclusion
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