Quicksand in the Western Sahara? From Referendum Stalemate to Negotiated Solution
The enduring proxy conflict between Morocco and Algeria over Western Sahara's status, intertwined with indigenous independence aspirations, poses ongoing challenges to conventional conflict resolution approaches, highlighting the need for a deeper understanding of its geopolitical, economic, and identity dimensions to facilitate a lasting settlement.
Aesthetics of Resistance in Western Sahara
By Jennifer M. Murphy & Sidi M. Omar (2013) This article explores the emergence of indignant movements globally in response to neoliberal globalization, focusing on the "Sahrawi Spring" in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara as a case study. Drawing from Paulo Freire's
3 Stolen Cameras
The members of video activist group, Equipe Media, fight to keep their cameras. They use them to document the Moroccan kingdoms’ violations of human rights in Africa’s last colony – Western Sahara.
The coloniality of ecological modernization
The dominant narratives on how to confront climate change are often presented as neutral proposals concerned with the well-being of the planet and its inhabitants. This article exemplifies how concepts like Ecological Modernization and Sustainable Development are used in the name of energy transitions to prolong illegal military occupations in two territories, occupied Western Sahara and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. We expose the enduring coloniality of such concepts that have been critiqued not only for their lack of neutrality but also for their contribution to the denial of basic human rights such as self-determination, sovereignty, and the right to resourcehood.
Rifles or graffiti. The nonviolent struggle of the Sahrawi People
Since the ceasefire agreement in 1991 the Sahrawis have engaged in a decades long non-violent struggle against the occupation. With no political solution on the horizon and an intransigent Morocco supported by the United States the young Sahrawis in the refugee camps are growing more restless and asking whether a return to the armed struggle is the only way to gain freedom.