Almanac of law. Issue 15 (2024), pages 182–188.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2024-15-182-188

Tsvietkova Y. V.
Reintegration of the population of disputed territories after the military conflicts: legal experience of Azerbaijan and Israel and the prospects for Ukraine

The article examines the state-legal experience of development and implementation of the programs for integration of the population groups of disputed territories in Azerbaijan and Israel, which were previously complicated due to the military conflicts. The analysis of the existing integration programs of both states demonstrates the presence of many common features. In both cases, political and religious rights are guaranteed to the population of the disputed territories, an increase in positive attitude towards the state is facilitated by economic privileges and additional opportunities for economic development of both specific individuals and entire communities. Sufficient emphasis is placed on the youth-oriented cultural and educational opportunities. In order to exercise these rights or to be entitled to the stimuli, certain loyalty or self-identification with the state is required from the population, in particular in the form of acquiring citizenship. The biggest differences in the state and legal policy of both states are related to the fact that Azerbaijan has actually already gained full control over the territory of Karabakh, while in Israel the territorial issue is far from being resolved. It should also be taken into account that Azerbaijan has only two ethno-religious groups related to the territory of Karabakh, and in Israel we are talking about Muslim Arabs, but they belong to three different groups, which is also reflected in the creation of different models when building relations with them Attention is also drawn to the fact that Israel has been pursuing this policy for several decades, while Azerbaijan has just started it. The advantage of the prospects for implementing the population reintegration policy in Azerbaijan is that the military conflict with Armenia over the territory of Karabakh is almost over. Attention is also focused on the different ratio of the population that the state is trying to integrate and the population in the «core» territories of each state. The analysis of the mentioned statistics makes it possible to predict the best prospects for the implementation of the state and legal policy of Azerbaijan. The practice of population integration and reintegration programs is very relevant for Ukraine. After all, the end of the war with the Russian Federation will present our state and society with this problem in its entirety. Today, the task of lawyers-scientists is to study the most successful examples of other states and create developments that could be useful to us.

Key words: disputed territories, policy of integration and reintegration, Azerbaijan, Israel.

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Yulianna Volodymyrivna Tsvetkova,
Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of Law and State
of the Academic and Scientific Institute of Law
of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,
Doctor of Law, Associate Professor
ORCID: 0000-0001-7557-7048