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Special Report - Regional territorial disputes (ISSN 17414474)
Unresolved tensions
Whatever Chile and Peru may say, recourse to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is no longer seen as an automatic guarantee that there will be acceptable judicial solutions to territorial disputes. What has changed the outlook is Colombia’s rejection of the ICJ’s judgment on its maritime dispute with Nicaragua, and its subsequent withdrawal from the Bogotá Pact, the regional treaty that makes the ICJ’s jurisdiction mandatory — as well as barring the use of force or any kind of coercion.
