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The Compass: The Great Unravelling: The Great Unravelling: Self Determination

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14/11/2018 GMT

The Great Unravelling: Self Determination

The Great Unravelling

BBC World Service - The Compass, The Great Unravelling, The Great Unravelling: Self Determination

What does the principle of self-determination mean in 2018?

Franklin Roosevelt insisted on including the principle of self-determination in the Atlantic Charter, but what does it mean in 2018?

Afua Hirsch examines the principle of self-determination, which Franklin Roosevelt insisted on including in the Atlantic Charter. It was a powerful force behind the liberation struggles which peaked in the 1950s and '60s as a wave of decolonisation swept the world and countries such as Tunisia, Jamaica, Nigeria and Guyana achieved independence. But it is not the same as a right to separate and form your own country, as the Catalans have recently been reminded. And it has a forgotten dark side as a justification for population transfer, going back to 1923 when Greece and Turkey agreed to uproot two million people in a forced population exchange.

Presenter: Afua Hirsch
Producer: Lucy Bailey

(Photo: Illustration of a knitted ball resembling Earth unravelling. Credit: Nadia Akingbule)

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Is the world order that was forged after World War II unravelling?

Is the world order that was forged after World War II unravelling? The journalist and former barrister Afua Hirsch talks to a wide range of international lawyers, historians and thinkers and asks if the world order forged after WWII is coming apart.

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