ABSTRACT
As a budding jurisprudential movement, therapeutic jurisprudence has continually gained credibility in legal circles. Therapeutic jurisprudence focuses on the law's impact on emotional life and psychological well-being. Self-determination is by no means a new concept in the history of political thought. Based on the Enlightenment, it is a natural extension of the fundamental liberties that philosophers such as John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Stuart Mill espoused. According to the United Nations Charter, a fundamental principle of this new organization would be "to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principles of equal rights and self-determination of people". Since the end of the Cold War, the nation-state, if such a thing ever really existed, is quickly disappearing. While traditional international law has looked to states as the primary constituent actors on the international stage, we are facing a world where every person is a people, for the purpose of the right of self-determination.
