Each of the four main types of boundary disputes is as active today as it was in years' past. Positional disputes are as common in central Africa as obesity is in the US. Territorial disputes have overshadowed the history of Southeast Asia. Resource disputes are nearly inseparable from daily living in the Middle East. A cultural dispute has been and will, foreseeable, continue between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Border disputes could almost be called the "favorite past time" of the international political arena.
             Rwanda and Burundi have been disputing their shared border with such hostility that there is a permanently dead area between them. These two nations have been unable to decide to what extent each own the land. The problem is furthered because of the tribal-style warfare in each country. Neither country has been able to effectively stabilize itself, and to a much lesser extent, the border.
             The tribal warfare in each country has created a political gash from which the two countries will require years to recover. Part of the big problem is that there is no standing government in either country that can act as a mediator. There is no entity with which to negotiate. Both countries suffer from the same problem, and both will need to resolve their internal conflicts before being able to resolve the international conflict.
             Southeast Asia's territorial disputes have been many and often. The former soviet republics are perhaps the best example of this type of dispute. The CCCP was unable to maintain its enormous girth and was forced to resign the membership of a vast portion of land. The conflicts, however, continued even after the formation of the new countries. Afghanistan and Russia fought brutally for a time, yet Russia was forced again to leave Afghanistan.
             Pakistan and India share an equally problematic border. The Kashmir area is claimed by both countries, each threatening war ...