Western Sahara conflict: historical, regional and international dimensions
As the last African or Middle Eastern territory to be effectively colonised by a European power and one of the last to be freed from colonial yoke, the Western Sahara was considered in the 1950s and 60s primarily as an issue of decolonisation.
Western Sahara – The Refugee Nation
My first image of the Western Sahara dates back to the early 1980s, when I was only a child. I was watching TV, the news, and I remember the presenter saying something about a war in a former Spanish territory, which looked very different from the exuberantly green and perpetually wet northern Iberian valleys of my childhood.
Deterritorialized Youth
Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth, unlike their Palestinian contemporaries, are encouraged to return both by international agencies and the powers occupying their traditional homelands.
The EU, Civil Society and Conflict Transformation in Western Sahara: The Failure of Disengagement
The protracted Western Sahara dispute, which has for over three decades pitted Morocco against the Sahrawi independentistas of the Polisario Front, epitomises the impotence of state-led conflict resolution efforts.
Sovereignty and the Western Sahara
The Western Sahara conflict, now in its 35th year, is a conflict that challenges concepts of territorial sovereignty and self-determination and of the alleged linkage between them.