#self-determination

• Anticolonialism — An ideological current, political attitude, or social movement manifested globally against colonialism and imperialist dominance; a doctrine that condemns the exploitation of dependent territories by foreign powers and supports the right of colonized peoples to self-determination, sovereignty, and national independence. This historical phenomenon reached its zenith in the 20th century, leading to the collapse of major European colonial empires.
• Self-determination — The act of self-determining and its result; a fundamental pillar of public international law proclaiming the freedom of a people to decide their own political and state organization. In cognitive psychology, it represents a theory of human motivation focused on the importance of autonomy, competence, and relatedness in personality development.
• Autonomy — The right or capacity of a community, region, or individual to self-administer, self-govern, and make independent decisions within a set legal or moral framework; the state of structural independence of an entity relative to a central authority. In philosophy and ethics, it represents the full freedom of the human will to impose its own moral laws, acting on practical reason without external heteronomous constraints.