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Split at the Sand Wall: The Western Sahara Conflict and the Divergence of Sahrawi Identity in exile and under occupation
How does a group's identity change if it is subject to two vastly different conditions? How has Sahrawi identity developed in exile and under occupation? In this episode, Maarten Weinrich, a postgraduate student in Strategic Studies with a background in conflict transformation and peacekeeping research, explores how decades of conflict, exile, and occupation have led tothe development of two increasingly diverging understandings and expressions of Sahrawi identity, presenting novel challenges to Sahrawi activism. He suggests that while "being Sahrawi" remains a fundamentally political…
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