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Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Self-portrait of Somaliland written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : War-torn Societies Project
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rebuilding Somaliland written by War-torn Societies Project and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marleen Renders
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004222545
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Consider Somaliland written by Marleen Renders and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can ‘traditional’ leaders and institutions help to build more legitimate, accountable and effective governments in polities or ‘states’ under (re)construction? This book investigates the case of “Somaliland”, the 20-year old non-recognized state which emerged from Somalia’s conflict and state collapse. A careful analysis of Somaliland’s political history, it outlines the complex and evolving institutional and power dynamics involving clan elders, militia leaders, guerrilla movements, as well as politicians and civil servants in its emerging state structures. While showing the great potential of endogenous processes, it clearly demonstrates the complexity and the politics of those processes and the necessity to think beyond one-size-fits-all state-building formulas.
Author : Duncan French
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107311276
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Statehood and Self-Determination written by Duncan French and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of statehood and self-determination provide the normative structure on which the international legal order is ultimately premised. As a system of law founded upon the issue of territorial control, ascertaining and determining which entities are entitled to the privileges of statehood continues to be one of the most difficult and complex issues. Moreover, although the process of decolonisation is almost complete, the principle of self-determination has raised new challenges for the metropolitan territories of established states, including the extent to which 'internal' self-determination guarantees additional rights for minority and other groups. As the controversies surrounding remedial secession have revealed, the territorial integrity of a state can be questioned if there are serious and persistent breaches of a people's human rights. This volume brings together such debates to reflect further on the current state of international law regarding these fundamental issues.
Author : Rebecca Richards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317004663
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Understanding Statebuilding written by Rebecca Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much analysis of state building focusses on dissecting specific projects and attempting to identify what has gone ’wrong’ in states such as Afghanistan and Iraq. What draws less attention is what has gone ’right’ in non-interventionist statebuilding projects within 'unrecognised’ states. By examining this model in more depth a more successful model of statebuilding emerges in which the end goal of modern democracy and good governance are more likely to be realized. Indeed 'states-within-states’ such as Somaliland where external intervention in the statebuilding process is largely absent can provide vital new lessons. Somaliland is a functioning democratic political entity in northwestern Somalia which declared its independence from the troubled south in 1991 and then embarked on an ambitious project to create a democratic government and successful state in the post-conflict environment. The leaders and the people of Somaliland have since succeeded not only in maintaining peace and stability, but also in building the institutions of government and the foundations for democracy that have led to a succession of elections, peaceful transfers of power and a consolidation of democratization. The resulting state of Somaliland is widely hailed as a beacon of success within a politically turbulent region and provides a useful framework for successful statebuilding projects throughout the world.
Author : Eve Zucker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472127195
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Coexistence in the Aftermath of Mass Violence written by Eve Zucker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coexistence in the Aftermath of Mass Violence demonstrates how imagination, empathy, and resilience contribute to the processes of social repair after ethnic and political violence. Adding to the literature on transitional justice, peacebuilding, and the anthropology of violence and social repair, the authors show how these conceptual pathways—imagination, empathy and resilience—enhance recovery, coexistence, and sustainable peace. Coexistence (or reconciliation) is the underlying goal or condition desired after mass violence, enabling survivors to move forward with their lives. Imagination allows these survivors (victims, perpetrators, bystanders) to draw guidance and inspiration from their social and cultural imaginaries, to develop empathy, and to envision a future of peace and coexistence. Resilience emerges through periods of violence and its aftermaths through acts of survival, compassion, modes of rebuilding social worlds, and the establishment of a peaceful society. Focusing on society at the grass roots level, the authors discuss the myriad and little understood processes of social repair that allow ruptured societies and communities to move toward a peaceful and stable future. The volume also illustrates some of the ways in which imagination, empathy, and resilience may contribute to the prevention of future violence and the authors conclude with a number of practical and policy recommendations. The cases include Cambodia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Colombia, the Southern Cone, Iraq, and Bosnia.
Author : Monica Kathina Juma
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171065025
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Eroding Local Capacity written by Monica Kathina Juma and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eroding Local Capacity is a critical examination of the interplay between international and local actors operating in the humanitarian arena in Africa. All sides emphasise the need to build local capacity for humanitarian action, yet the results have not been substantial. Even long-term, semi-permanent emergencies have generated little local capacity to assist and protect the victims of violence, displacement and related deprivations. In some cases, whatever local capacity did exist has been overwhelmed by the international aid presence. Why is this so? What is the case for a more even division of labour between North and South in this area, and why is it so difficult to bring about? The book focuses on cases from East Africa and the Horn. It considers institutional capacity in the public and private sector, as well as legal and social norms of humanitarian action. The authors are African and Nordic scholars who worked together on the NORAD-supported project over a 3-year period. Preliminary conclusions were discussed at seminars organized by the Centre for Foreign Relations (Dar es Salaam), the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town), and the Chr. Michelsen Institute (Bergen).
Author : Seth D. Kaplan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0275998290
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Fixing Fragile States written by Seth D. Kaplan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragile states are a menace. Their lawless environments spread instability across borders, provide havens for terrorists, threaten access to natural resources, and consign millions of people to poverty. But Western attempts to reform these benighted places have rarely made things better. Kaplan argues that to avoid revisiting the carnage and catastrophes seen in places like Iraq, Bosnia, and the Congo, the West needs to rethink its ideas on fragile states and start helping their peoples build governments and states that actually fit the local landscape. Fixing Fragile States lays bare the fatal flaws in current policies and explains why the only way to give these places a chance at peace and prosperity is to rethink how development really works. Flawed governance systems, not corrupt bureaucrats or armed militias, are the cancers that devour weak states. The cure, therefore, is not to send more aid or more peacekeepers but to redesign political, economic, and legal structures-to refashion them so they can leverage local traditions, overcome political fragmentation, expand governance capacities, and catalyze corporate investment. After dissecting the reasons why some states prosper and others sink into poverty and violence, Fixing Fragile States visits seven deeply dysfunctional places—including Pakistan, Bolivia, West Africa, and Syria—and explains how even the most desperate of them can be transformed.
Author : P. Kingston
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403981019
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book States-Within-States written by P. Kingston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the existing juridical states in the Third World remain fragile and prone to collapse. Yet, these conditions have not always given way to anarchy. In some cases, the breakdown of weak and often arbitrary states has given way to more coherent and viable, though not necessarily benevolent, political entities. This book examines the extent to which these sub-units - ' states within states ' - represent alternatives that the international community could look to in a long-term effort to bring stability, security and development to peoples in the Third World.
Author : Liisa Laakso
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783601000
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Diasporas, Development and Peacemaking in the Horn of Africa written by Liisa Laakso and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exiled populations, who increasingly refer to themselves as diaspora communities, hold a strong stake in the fate of their countries of origin. In a world becoming ever more interconnected, they engage in 'long-distance politics' towards, send financial remittances to and support social development in their homelands. Transnational diaspora networks have thus become global forces shaping the relationship between countries, regions and continents. This important intervention, written by scholars working at the cutting edge of diaspora and conflict, challenges the conventional wisdom that diaspora are all too often warmongers, their time abroad causing them to become more militant in their engagement with local affairs. Rather, they can and should be a force for good in bringing peace to their home countries. Featuring in-depth case studies from the Horn of Africa, including Somalia and Ethiopia, this volume presents an essential rethinking of a key issue in African politics and development.
Author : Mark Fathi Massoud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832784
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Sharia, Inshallah written by Mark Fathi Massoud and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shari'a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari'a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.
Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801894840
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Democratization in Africa written by Larry Diamond and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weiss, Christopher Wyrod, Daniel J. Young
Author : Michel Ben Arrous
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 2869782314
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)
Download or read book African Studies in Geography from Below written by Michel Ben Arrous and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doctrine of international relations (inter-state, indeed), territorial ideologies, the logic of autochthony and its ramifications, ethnic cleansing, are all hinged at different levels upon the same pseudo-fact: to every society a closed and exclusive territory demarcated by fixed and linear borders. This way of thinking, totally foreign to African societies for a long time, has generated today more contradictions than it can ever solve. The authors of this book make a clear distinction between territory formation "from the top" as being a deliberate political project, and its formation "from below" as being a more diffused historical process which is determined by the scheme of antagonisms and compromises between social forces. In lieu of a stark opposition between "the top" and "below", the authors unveil the interdependence and mutual influence which form the basis of a dual system within which legal formation -by the colonial authorities first, then by the postcolonial one- is confronted with a host of subaltern spatial dynamics, neglecting thereby the legitimacy which only them can provide. As an essential read for anyone who is interested in the relationship between knowledge and power, this book offers stimulating perspectives on the issue of African unity and its epistemological and political challenges. It renews profoundly our approaches to human security, citizenship, borders and mobility.
Author : Abdulkadir O. Farah
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912234866
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Somalia written by Abdulkadir O. Farah and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the final collapse of Somalia's repressive regime in 1991, Somalia has presented the world not only with the most profound case of state collapse witnessed in modern times but also with one of the most intriguing cases of political fragmentation, armed conflicts, lawlessness and statelessness. Inevitably the last 20 years of statelessness and chaos has left the Somali economy destitute and made Somalia to be ranked among the five poorest 'countries' in the world. Contributors to this volume examine efforts at reconstituting the failed Somali state and the role of the Somali Diaspora and civil society groups in the processes. They also analyse how the Somali Diaspora and civil society in Somalia engage and cooperate to further processes of state-reconstitution in Somalia as well as help the Somali Diaspora adjust in their host nations.
Author : Martin Doornbos
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137548525
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Social Research and Policy in the Development Arena written by Martin Doornbos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author focuses on the research-policy nexus in development studies, highlighting reciprocal orientations and interactions between the domains of social research and of policy and politics. He looks at instances where these domains are complementary and geared towards common objectives, but also with others marked by opposing rationales.
Author : Tobias Hagmann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444395572
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Negotiating Statehood written by Tobias Hagmann and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa. Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation of statehood in contemporary Africa Conceptualizes who negotiates statehood (the actors, resources and repertoires), where these negotiation processes take place, and what these processes are all about ncludes a collections of essays that provides empirical and analytical insights into these processes in eight different country studies in Africa Critically reflects on the negotiability of statehood in Africa
Author : Mohamed Mohamud
Publisher : Looh Press
ISBN 13 : 9781912411047
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Somali Sideways written by Mohamed Mohamud and published by Looh Press. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Somali sideways has got to be one of the ground breaking creative projects ever created by a Somali for Somalis only. It shares powerful, sad, funny and hopeful global stories of Somalis. I was honoured to have been part of the work Mohamed created and it gave me the opportunity to share my journey with many other Somalis around the world." - Leyla Hussein; Lead Social Activist, Psychotherapist, Writer. "I think Somali Sideways was the first platform that allowed Somalis to connect with and be inspired by stories of strangers from around the world. I think the images of Somalis standing sideways were very powerful. To me it felt like they were allowing us into their lives but at the same time reminding that there is a lot more to them that we don't know." - Haweya Ismail; Founder of MUD & MUSK "Mohamed Mohamud is one of the smartest, inspiring and hardworking leaders you will ever meet. When Mohamed started Somali Sideways to shape the narrative and showcase positive images of the Somali experience globally, there were not many platforms that filled the need Mohamed saw. Mohamed was a young man ahead of his time. Hundreds of people have reached out to him to share their life experiences from all corners of the world. Somali Sideways brought us stories of Somalis in places we never imagine finding Somalis in the first place. With this book, Mohamed has chosen some of the best and inspiring stories that he hopes to share with the world." - Guled Ibrahim; Rotary Peace Fellow and One Young World Ambassador
