Graduate Research: Siobhan Amelia Smith on the role of the UN in Rhodesian and Zimbabwean Decolonisation

Scottish Centre for Global History

Siobhan Amelia Smith, a PhD student at the European University Institute in Italy discusses her research on the role of the United Nations in Rhodesian and Zimbabwean decolonization. She highlights the crisis of decolonisation within the UN, the contested claims between white minority power in Rhodesian and Zimbabwean nationalist parties and the role her research plays in highlighting the complexities of viewing the UN as a political history.