Abstract
Disputes over territory are among the most contentious in human affairs. Throughout the world, societies view control over land and resources as necessary to ensure their survival and to further their particular life-style, and the very passion with which claims over a region are asserted and defended suggests that difficult normative issues lurk nearby. Questions about rights to territory vary. It is one thing to ask who owns a particular parcel of land, another who has the right to reside within its boundaries and yet another to determine which individuals or groups have political rights of citizenship, sovereignty, and self-determination within it. It must also be asked how these rights—if ‘rights’ is the correct term—are acquired.
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© 2008 Raja Halwani & Tomis Kapitan
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Kapitan, T. (2008). Self-Determination. In: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599710_2
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