What is the international boundaries Research Unit?
The world's leading research centre on international boundary making and dispute resolution. Since its founding as the International Boundaries Research Unit in 1989, IBRU has been the world’s leading research centre on international boundary making and dispute resolution.
How can historical records help solve African border and territorial disputes?
Use historical records to advance solutions for African border and territorial disputes. The focus is on both land and maritime boundaries and territories. To generate more appropriate and effective measures of managing and securing African borders Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography of Sources (2 nd edition)2006231Edited by Alfred Kagan.
What is a state-centric perspective of borders?
... This traditional state-centric perspective of borders defined states by their territories and respective historical borders which also serve as symbolic and mental representations of statehood (Paasi, 1998;Anderson & O'Dowd, 1999; Laine, 2015; Newman, 2003).