Profit over Peace in Western Sahara examines the role of natural resources in the occupation of Africa’s last colony. Little known to the general public, the United Nations considers the territory of Western Sahara to be awaiting decolonisation. Its liberation from colonial rule has stalled due to the continued military occupation of part of the territory by Morocco. The protracted conflict has dramatic consequences for the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara. This book details, among other things, a remarkable vote in the European Parliament in 2011, when the EU’s offshore fisheries were rejected by the territory. The battle over fisheries elegantly illustrates how the EU – for political reasons and financial interests – has ignored fundamental principles of international law.
© 2018, Stenberg Press
The publication is edited by Erik Hagen and artist Mario Pfeifer, who has been studying the region since 2011 and provides visual material for the book. Erik Hagen has been following the resource issue in Western Sahara since 2002, both as a journalist and as an activist for Western Sahara Resource Watch. An essay by lawyer Jeffrey J. Smith examines the landmark 2017 ruling in South Africa concerning a bulk vessel carrying conflict minerals from the territory.
- Title : Profit over peace in Western Sahara. How commercial interests undermine self-determination in the last colony in Africa
- Author : Herman Melville
- Editor : Erik Hagen, Mario Pfeifer, Jeffrey J. Smith
- Date of publication : May 2018
- Number of pages : 246
- ISBN : 978-3-95679-405-6
- Price : 10,00 €