The Somali Conflict: Root causes, obstacles, and peace-building strategies

Elmi, Afyare A.; Barise, Abdullahi

doi:10.1080/10246029.2006.9627386

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“…Examples are: the importance of the 55. Elmi and Barise (2006 informal economy as a source of livelihoods and in replacing services during highly disruptive conflict; the emergence of social networks and solidarity amongst affected communities; the growth and adverse effects of war economies; and impacts on the economic roles of women. These key themes provide our framework for examining livelihoods strategies in the informal economy in conflict-affected Somaliland.…”

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Informal economies, conflict recovery and absent aid

Mackie¹,

Brown²,

Dickenson³

et al. 2017

Environment and Urbanization

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This paper addresses the issue of what happens in the aftermath of conflict when humanitarian response is absent, to see how "self-help" recovery can inform development assistance paradigms and practice. We explore livelihoods strategies and community-led recovery processes in the context of conflict in Somaliland, a region that experienced an acutely disruptive conflict and an absence of humanitarian aid, to evaluate the economic recovery that emerged. The conflict is tracked through perceptions and recollections of those who lived through the disaster: the bombing of Hargeisa in 1988 that flattened the city, the declaration of a semi-autonomous nation in 1991, and its subsequent development over the last 25 years. This critical case study aims to inform the humanitarian assistance agenda in relation to livelihoods as a self-help process in post-conflict recovery.

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Section: Seddon and Husseinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Informal economies, conflict recovery and absent aid

Mackie¹,

Brown²,

Dickenson³

et al. 2017

Environment and Urbanization

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“…7 Systematic reviewing and documenting of peace activists' work in the war-torn countries of the middle east, Asia, and Africa (see Elmi & Barise, 2006) may potentially help to marshal evidence for integrating faith-based approaches and conventional secularised peacemaking and peacebuilding perspectives, within the context of our global initiatives, to restrict the influences of a militarised world order. If the preceding analysis of Khan's (2000Khan's ( , 2001Khan's ( , 2002Khan's ( , 2003 work serves to stimulate further theoretical explorations of other classical and contemporary faith-based and indigenous socio-ethical approaches to peace, a major aim of this article will have been fulfilled.…”

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Wahiduddin Khan and Peace in Contemporary Islamic Thought

Seedat

2006

South African Journal of Psychology

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Despite a resurgence of the view that the religious sciences and Islam are antithetical to the secular sciences and to secularised thought respectively, a reading of contemporary Islamic literature on peace and war reveals a great deal of resonance with peace psychology. As in peace psychology, much of Islamic thought is concerned with the theory and praxis of peacemaking and peacebuilding, and with the prevention of collective and structural violence. In the interest of encouraging dialogue between the religious and secular sciences, this article introduces readers to contemporary Islamic scholarship focused on collective violence, peacemaking, and peacebuilding. Special attention is given to one contemporary Islamic scholar, Wahiduddin Khan, and his faith-based ideas on peace promotion. Wahiduddin Khan's works on peace, representative of a socio-normative approach to social justice, are examined alongside a reading of Islamic perspectives on knowledge and human nature. By way of conclusion, the parallels between Islamic and peace psychology perspectives are noted, and a brief call is made for a study of the influences of faith-based approaches in current peace initiatives across different regions of the world.

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“…Therefore, a context of war mongering created by colonial legacy and clannism can be seen as responsible for the collapse of the Somali social fabric. As posited by a large body of literature, the failure and collapse of the Somali state rest on two key factors: A history of bad leadership and a culture characterized by clannism [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. Interestingly, on one hand, recent studies have indicated the transition of Somalia into a post conflict stage, which implies the need for Somalia to go through the post conflict reconstruction stages.…”

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Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia

Hassan

Zain

Ajis

2019

ARJASS

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The study seeks to explore the impact of leadership personalities of previous Somali political leaders on social integration. As Somalia now transit into post conflict reconstruction, there is the need to explore how previous flaws in leadership personalities resulted into social disintegration of the Somali society. To achieve this objective, qualitative interviews were held with 13 respondents across Somali elite in Mogadishu. Using the Big Five personality framework, the results revealed that previous Somali leadership personalities were deeply flawed due to colonial legacy and influence of clannism. In addition, fear of losing and retaining power at all cost instituted clannism as a means on obtaining and retaining political power, thereby compromising unity and social integration. The result also depicted that a significant number of Somali leaders were generally low in conscientiousness as a necessary leadership quality within the Big Five framework. The study maintains that the ongoing post-conflict reconstruction is unlikely to succeed unless leadership personality adapts properly to the prevailing situation of social integration. Moreover, the study recommends that leadership in Somalia should prioritize the restoration of social trust so that Somalia’s reconstruction process can succeed.

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The Somali Conflict: Root causes, obstacles, and peace-building strategies

Cited by 43 publications

References 5 publications

Informal economies, conflict recovery and absent aid

Informal economies, conflict recovery and absent aid

Wahiduddin Khan and Peace in Contemporary Islamic Thought

Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia

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