The Algerian-Tunisian border is an area in its own right with its own natural and human character that has made it to a region far from the central authority and from the areas of growth that have been linked to the coasts since the colonial era. In fact, this area contains many natural resources that abound in the mountains, forests and valleys of the north, including water, natural reserves, medicinal and non-medicinal plants. In addition to this natural heritage, there is a colonial legacy such as railways and some mining resources that the national states have abandoned. The same railway network extends in the central region of the Algerian-Tunisian border, where some villages and colonial buildings are still in a state that threatens them with collapse, as is the cultural heritage of some local groups.

As for the southern border, it is full of Sufi and desert heritage, especially methods of exploiting oases water, some of which have become threatened by various forms of pollution.

Local residents can restore the various types of heritage that abound in the various border areas and exploit them in ways that preserve the environment and make them a new product that can be used either for tourism or for marketing it through new technologies to be a form of integration into globalization.

This sustainable border development will not succeed unless border individuals and groups reconcile with their local and national identities.