Rights After Liberation

Eritrea recently emerged from a devastating thirty-one-year war for national independence. One right, self-determination, held center stage. In the everyday, Wilsonian sense, this was achieved in 1991 by military success, and ratified by domestic referendum and international recognition. Yet, self-determination is still an issue. What is the “self “that will determine Eritrea’s peacetime future? How is the nation to be represented? How are its decisions to be made? How are t...