I think some of these conflicts will never be resolved. You can probably toss in India vs. Pakistan over the Jammu-Kashmir region.... another conflict arising from lines drawn by colonial powers. African countries have numerous border disputes going back decades as well. A significant number of countries lay claim to a variety of islands as sovereign territory...luckily, many of these do not impact large populations. The conflicts that are the most troubling are those that have seemingly arbitrarily divided cultures with family members stuck on opposite sides of "the line." North and South Korea is one of many examples.
One article summarizes the complexity of this issue rather nicely:
"Current societies were constructed on the idea of the nation State, meaning the assertion of control over a delimited geographical area or territory, where the majority of people have a common sense of belonging and identity. The social contract was thus made by dominant population groups imposing international borders on communities, denying the alterity of indigenous territorial governance. To this day, this governmental imposition of fixed borders hinders indigenous border-fluid traditional practices, which are often essential to Indigenous Peoples’ way of living and survival."
My point entirely about never solved. I guess I did not make that a clearly enough. Thank you.
I think some of these conflicts will never be resolved. You can probably toss in India vs. Pakistan over the Jammu-Kashmir region.... another conflict arising from lines drawn by colonial powers. African countries have numerous border disputes going back decades as well. A significant number of countries lay claim to a variety of islands as sovereign territory...luckily, many of these do not impact large populations. The conflicts that are the most troubling are those that have seemingly arbitrarily divided cultures with family members stuck on opposite sides of "the line." North and South Korea is one of many examples.
One article summarizes the complexity of this issue rather nicely:
"Current societies were constructed on the idea of the nation State, meaning the assertion of control over a delimited geographical area or territory, where the majority of people have a common sense of belonging and identity. The social contract was thus made by dominant population groups imposing international borders on communities, denying the alterity of indigenous territorial governance. To this day, this governmental imposition of fixed borders hinders indigenous border-fluid traditional practices, which are often essential to Indigenous Peoples’ way of living and survival."
https://www.universal-rights.org/international-borders-dividing-lines-for-indigenous-peoples-rights/