Conflict and the Many States of Colonialism

Abstract

While different forms of colonial domination affected and still influence the development of today's international order, national liberation movements are still fighting for self-determination and sovereignty. In doing so, the roles of international norms like self-determination and (Indigenous) sovereignty are critically discussed regarding their origin, development and interlinkage with today's debates. These include debates about topics like European modernity and Indigenous and Afro-decent epistemologies. This panel addresses this highly topical field by combining multiple focus points and empirical examples like Brazil, Palestine, Cyprus and Western Sahara. It combines the analysis of settler colonial states and incomplete decolonisation with perspectives focusing on alternative explanatory approaches like class or the relevance of the United Nations General Assembly's coining of the term "dependent people" since the 1950s. In addition, it addresses the interplay of truth commissions and other institutions of political reconciliation with a critique of modernity. Furthermore, this panel critically engages with debates concerning nation-states, nations as such, nationalism and sovereign equality while integrating various methodological approaches. In doing so, it links to debates of International Law and other neighbouring disciplines.

Title	Details
State Capacity and India's Silent Revolution	View Paper Details
Women were also settlers: analysing the role of German women in settler violence in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1915	View Paper Details
Decolonizing the understanding of peace and gender in local peacebuilding processes in Colombia	View Paper Details
The Muted State: Turkish Foreign Policy and The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria	View Paper Details