Instead of a simple choice between autonomy and instant independence, they should be given the option of voting for autonomy with the guarantee that another vote would be held in three (or five) years' time on the matter of independence.
ECONOMIST: A period of autonomy followed by a vote on independence?
Many southerners might accept autonomy instead of independence if they felt they had a modicum of justice.
Robin: The problem at its roots is that large parts of the South want to have very large amounts of autonomy if not independence and this is not acceptable to the authorities in Khartoum.
But with Spanish royalist officials refusing any autonomy, calls for independence soon followed.
The treaty gives Mindanao's Muslims less than the full independence they wanted but substantial autonomy nonetheless.
Clinton worked through NATO to protect the independence of Bosnia and the autonomy of Kosovo from a Serbia bent upon reestablishing its own version of hegemony over peoples that had suffered centuries of ethnic conflict under the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires.
The current government in Barcelona has called for a referendum on independence after Madrid vetoed further fiscal autonomy last month.
In exchange for autonomy, the front will end its armed campaign for independence.
The report's call for central-bank autonomy, for instance, simply meant "greater operational independence rather than true independence from the government in making major monetary-policy decisions, " Mr. Prasad said.
The paper asserts that Scotland cannot have all the extra autonomy over taxes and spending and regulation that comes with independence, while somehow also hanging on to all the benefits of sharing a currency with the rest of the UK, because currency union after independence would have to work differently than it does now.
In its stead is an artificial debate as if the choice remains between "integration" and "independence, " which misses the point about the autonomy proposal, which is intended to bridge the two poles.
He has hinted that he wants to give the NHS more local autonomy - albeit apparently falling short of suggestions he wanted to give it full independence from government.
Even if the people of Scotland decide to turn down the offer of independence, the constitutional ramifications will still be significant, with much more power and autonomy likely to accrue to Holyrood.
Having gained independence in 1963, it became part of mainland Tanzania the following year and now enjoys considerable autonomy, having its own parliament and president, as well as sending elected representatives to the mainland.
Serbia insists that Friday's deal, granting a high degree of autonomy to Serb-majority areas in northern Kosovo, does not mean that it has recognised Kosovo's independence.
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