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International Online Training Program On Intractable Conflict |
Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado, USA |
Peace zones offer a strategy for dealing with conflicting claims about the ownership of a particular piece of land or water. Rather than attempting to resolve the dispute by giving one side ownership, sovereignty for the area would be granted to a neutral body (such as the United Nations) which would be responsible for administering the area for the benefit of all parties and for making the innumerable compromises which are required whenever conflicting parties inhabit the same area. Zones of peace have been proposed, for example, for Jerusalem, Kurdistan, the South Atlantic, and the Indian Ocean.
UN may drop peace zone proposal for Indian Ocean
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