This paper deals with the transition, which is noted in the concept of the right to selfdetermination
under the influence of the increasing interest in the issues of
democracy and human rights and the accompanying growing globalization of
problems
, And notably those arising from the relationship of ethnic or religious
minorities with the governments of its mother, which is now rising in many voices
calling to go towards the prevention of such minorities the right to secession and
legitimize public international law on such a separation under the title of the right to
self-determination , This prompted some scholars and researchers for a shift in the
concept of this right from the fact that he want international mechanism to achieve
the independence of States under the yoke of colonialism and to ensure undertaken
to full sovereignty over its national territory to a means of settling internal conflicts
waged by some minorities with the governments of its countries Which requires to
shed light on this transformation and its compatibility statement with the concept
and content of the right to self-determination, with the study of the contemporary
situation of those cases, namely the secession of southern Sudan to give as much
vitality to the research and its results
