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Fourteen Principles
For a Multicultural State
Thomas Fleiner
Belgrade April 6
The major
Issue:
To hold or to bring multicultural
societies together
we have to ask:
How should they be governed?
Who should govern whom?
And even more explosive:
Who should decide, who should govern?
Why is multiculturalism a
problem?
Do federalism and decentralization
help to bring or to hold
multicultural societies together?
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Equalising:
collective
rights?
The Fourteen Principles
To hold a multicultural
State together
Legitimacy
Rule of Law
Shared
Rule
Self-Rule
Democracy
Legitimacy
1. Take cultural diversity seriously
2. Fatherland for minorities
3. Composed Nation
4. Multiple loyalty
Rule of Law
5. The Right to be unequal, or: equal rights
versus the right to be equal
6. Four Dimension of Freedom:
From, By, To, Within, the State
7. Liberty and Peace
Shared Rule
8. Participation of ethnic Groups
In Constitution making
9. Power sharing of cultural communities
Self
Rule
10. Autonomy
11. Enhancing diversity to overcome ethnification
of politics
Democracy
12. Self-determination of individuals
as aim of democracy
13. Value of compromise as alternative to the
winner takes all democracy
14. Conflict management