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Caught in de Middle: UN Involvement in the Western Sahara Conflict
May 2, 2007. For over 30 years the Western Sahara conflict has played a major role in blocking any attempt at regional cooperation in north-west Africa and it continues to do so until the present day. The United Nations has played a major role in the conflict, especially since the creation of the UN mission for the Western Sahara, MINURSO. In this Clingendael Diplomacy Paper, Jérôme Larosch evaluates the UN's efforts and looks at the analytical perspective of negotiation theorists on third-party intervention. Read more »