International Conflict: Border Disputes

Each of the four main types of boundary disputes is as active today as it was in years’ past. Positional disputes are as common in central Africa as obesity is in the US. Territorial disputes have overshadowed the history of Southeast Asia. Resource disputes are nearly inseparable from daily living in the Middle East. A cultural dispute has been and will, foreseeable, continue between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Border disputes could almost be called …

…organizations such as the ICJ and UN to assist in the resolutions. When the former Yugoslavia began to fall apart, international organization, many associated directly with the UN, helped the refuges and attempted to stabilize the region, and it is the ICJ that is deciding the fate of Slobodan Milosevic. There are still a great number of border disputes, but at least there are emerging the tools by which these problems may be peacefully resolved.