Expanding Norm and Lingering Fear

Taking Nepal as a case, this article argues that the meaning of the right to self-determination, in international norms in particular, has expanded from a right to secession to a right to inclusion, but this expansion has not abated the fear of secession on the ground. Nepal understands the ‘right to self-determination’ only as a right to form a new state, and refrains from including this right as a provision in the new Constitution. The three variables – socialisation of the right to self-determination as a norm permitting secession, contrast between formal and informal positions of indigenous leaders, and mainstream bias against the indigenous nationalities – are contributing to state’s reluctance to accommodate this right

Constitution · Indigenous · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Secession · Sociology · Human Rights and Development · Law · Mathematics · Ombudsman and Human Rights · Political Systems and Governance

• Indian intervention in ethnic movement of Nepal

  Open Access•Hari Har Jnawali•Ethnicities•2023

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