Jacob Mundy, assistant professor of peace and conflict studies
Writing about Western Sahara and Morocco in a feature article online at , asserted that “a web of geopolitical interests keeps the conflict in a permanent state of limbo.”
Mundy, assistant professor of , looks for a disruptive event to “unbalance the deadlock,” though, he wrote, the likeliest events — the Arab Spring, the 2012 Mali crisis, and renewed oil and gas interest in the area — all have failed to do so, at least thus far.
Mundy’s conclusion: “Right now, oil is the factor to watch when it comes to the Western Sahara dispute.”
Mundy has taught at 51 since fall 2011. He is co-author of and co-editor and contributor to . His forthcoming book is Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence.
Read Mundy’s September 16 article (PDF). He has been quoted in the , , and other outlets.