Shebaa Farms conflict
2000 - 2006
Background of the conflict
1960 - Six day war (Israel against Syria)
2006 - UN council resolution 1701
Conflict or dispute?
Israel
Lebanon and Syria
Causes
Consequences
Classification
Tractable or intractable?
Stages of conflict
-Escalated form
-Condition that encourages the escalation:
Incompatible goals Feeling of injustice Competing with the other party
-Rational action
-Crisis
-Strategies
Settlement, resolution or management of the conflict
Predominance in competitiveness
Negative goal
Zero-sum thinking
Action vs relationship
Bungling actions
Maximization of interests by attacking each other
Building trust
•Lebanon and Israel need to complete all the duties and obligations that both side have.
•They also need to establish consistency in the relationship and do everything is accorded.
•Honesty is a very important factor; Lebanon and Israel need to communicate accurately and transparently.
•Share the control over main issues.
•Both sides need to show concern about the other party; this is vital to build trust between them.
Was the situation ethical?
End-result ethics
Rule ethics
Social ethics
Personalistic ethics
Unethical strategies
the Arab world
Iran
Bibliography
Hezbollah
the UN
United States of America
Lines of control. (2000). Business Middle East, 2.
Kaufman, A. (2004). Understanding The Shebaa Farms Dispute: Roots of the Anomaly and Prospects of Resolution. Palestine-Israel Journal Of Politics, Economics & Culture, 11(1), 37-43.
McAllister, J. O., Allbritton, C., Blanford, N., Butters, A., Crumley, B., Klein, A. J., & ... Waller, D. (2006). Why Hizballah Can't Be Disarmed. Time International (Canada Edition), 168(6), 18-20.
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sc8808.doc.htm
Perthes, V. (2006). The Syrian Solution. Foreign Affairs, 85(6), 33-40
Djerejian, E. P. (2006). From Conflict Management to Conflict Resolution. Foreign Affairs, 85(6), 41-48.
El Husseini, R. (2010). Hezbollah and the Axis of Refusal: Hamas, Iran and Syria. Third World Quarterly, 31(5), 803-815. doi:10.1080/01436597.2010.502695
Damage caused to ongoing relationships
Competition for scarce resources
High-Stakes Distributional Issues
Domination or "pecking order" conflicts
Social and psychological costs
In order to establish a proper and official territory
Allocation
Delimitation
Demarcation
1920 - France negligent mapping
Resolutions 1701, 1559, 1680 UN council
Inconsistent identification
1950 - Border committee
Communication
2000 - Israel withdraws military forces to the blue line and Hezbollah attacks