On November 13, 2020, the Sahrawi movement for national liberation, known as the Polisario Front, resumed its armed struggle against Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. With this decision, the movement put an end to a 29‐year‐long peace process throughout which the implementation of international law had been indefinitely deferred. During this cease‐fire, the Polisario used humanitarian aid to strengthen its nation‐state building in exile. This practice formed part of a larger historical narration that was inserted into the cease‐fire's temporal parenthesis, or what I call an imperial meantime. As a result, a disjuncture arose between the movement's political forms and its goal of achieving state sovereignty over Western Sahara. During this imperial meantime, a generation of refugees came of age. Describing the contradictions experienced by young politicized refugees, and highlighting the role that the control over time plays in humanitarian governance, I show how the invisible violence of a humanitarian peace anticipated the return to armed struggle.

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 帝国时期


2020年11月13日，被称为波利萨里奥阵线的撒哈拉民族解放运动恢复武装斗争，反对摩洛哥占领西撒哈拉。通过这一决定，该运动结束了长达 29 年的和平进程，在此期间国际法的实施被无限期推迟。在这次停火期间，波利萨里奥利用人道主义援助来加强其流亡中的民族国家建设。这种做法构成了一个更大的历史叙述的一部分，被插入停火的时间括号中，或者我所说的帝国时期。结果，该运动的政治形式与其实现西撒哈拉国家主权的目标之间出现了脱节。在这段帝国时期，一代难民成年了。我描述了年轻的政治化难民所经历的矛盾，并强调了对时间的控制在人道主义治理中发挥的作用，展示了人道主义和平的无形暴力如何预示着武装斗争的回归。