Building on Sand: UN Peacekeeping in the Western Sahara
Durch explains why the UN mission in Western Sahara failed to hold its referendum and argues that ending it would be better than endorsing a Moroccan outcome.
Quicksand in the Western Sahara? From Referendum Stalemate to Negotiated Solution
Roussellier argues that the UN referendum framework for Western Sahara ignores competing nation-building projects and calls for broader negotiations.
Aesthetics of Resistance in Western Sahara
Murphy and Omar read the Gdeim Izik protest camp as an example of nonviolent, creative resistance that turned victims into active resisters.
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
Alkhalili, Dajani and Mahmoud show how wind energy projects entrench occupation in Western Sahara and the Syrian Golan Heights.