Realigning borders

Adjusting boundaries
Transferring territory

Description

Realigning borders involves the deliberate adjustment of territorial boundaries to address disputes, resolve conflicts, or better reflect demographic, cultural, or administrative realities. This strategy aims to remedy issues such as ethnic tensions, governance inefficiencies, or resource misallocation by redefining jurisdictional lines. Practical actions include negotiation, legal agreements, and, where necessary, international mediation to ensure peaceful transitions and minimize disruption to affected populations.

Implementation

Following the negotiation of a peace treaty between Jordan and Israel in 1994, several hundreds of hectares of former Israeli territory south of the Red Sea have been handed over to Jordan, mostly desert and unpopulated land. In practical terms, Israeli border guards have pulled back from between a few tens of metres to several kilometres, depending on the location, to correspond with the border realignment.