Au Sud-Liban, la Blue Line comme marqueur du post-conflit ?

Abstract

The region of South Lebanon has been marked by a long Israeli military occupation (1978-2000). It ended with a unilateral Israeli withdrawal that allowed the United Nations to draw of withdrawal called the Blue Line. However, Israel as well as Hezbollah constantly violated this delimitation, which eventually ended up into a war during the summer 2006. Aside of the human and material losses, this conflict was marked by the come back of a strengthened UNIFIL. Thanks to UN Resolution 1701, the UNIFIL troops rose up to 15’000 and their mandate involved the disarmament of all non-state actors in South Lebanon. From this moment, UNIFIL took the initiative to mark the Blue Line on the ground through the involvement of both belligerents thanks to tripartite meetings. This paper contends that the imposition of an international order in this borderland normalize the regional politic-military conflict while in the same time supporting and imposing to the belligerents a “post-conflict” political geography embodied in the Blue Line.

Keywords

• South Lebanon
• UNIFIL
• Israel
• Hizbullah
• Blue Line
• post-conflict