TITLE:
The Role of the United Nations Resolutions in Achieving Justice and Peace in the Western Sahara Conflict: A Case Crisis of Relevance
AUTHORS:
Yasmine Hasnaoui, Jamal Ait Laadam
KEYWORDS:
Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Polisario United Nations, UN Resolution, North Africa
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.12 No.12,
December
5,
2024
ABSTRACT: Since the founding of the United Nations, it has successfully played the proper role in international disputes, though sometimes failures remain. Each case has its causes and ends. This paper aims to analyze the UN Resolutions to argue how to implement international legal principles and resolutions in constructing world order and international governance. The case study is the key focus of this paper and tries to highlight the impact of UN failure in terms of peace development and the UN consistency with international law. The case analysis uses the example of the UN’s failure in resolving the Western Sahara conflict as an African problem. It also argues the interests of foreign states involved in the Western Sahara issue and the new balance of supported powers imposed by the Arab and African alliance in the face of regional rivalry. Finally, the paper explains and assesses the challenges and difficulties that the role of the United Nations Security Council as well as the personal envoys of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara have been facing since the conflict in Western Sahara territory transformed into a regional proxy war, in which several neighboring states around the Maghreb region, such as Algeria, Mauritania, and the African Union states, as well as the Polisario Front, used free force to reach their geopolitical outcomes.