SOMALIA 2007: STARTING FROM SCRATCH ON THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO PEACE AND DEMOCRACY?

dc.creator	Adrienne Ansems
dc.date	2011-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:07:37Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:07:37Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/36-1-46
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/fdcc88e3abf641228d8e8f269424bf4c
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/7806
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/fdcc88e3abf641228d8e8f269424bf4c
dc.description	Somalia, a country composed of four and a half major tribes, namely the Hawiye,<br />centred in Mogadishu, the Darod based in the North, the Dir and the Rahanweyn (the<br />other 40-odd minor tribes falling into the “half” category) blundered into the 21st<br />century without a modern state or its institutions (Mbugua, 2004:26). While the<br />country has been without an effective government since 1991, recent reports suggest<br />that, unless immediate action is taken on an international scale, Somalia will continue<br />on its downward trend towards internal collapse. Although much hope was pinned on<br />the success of the Somali National Reconciliation Conference, which played host to<br />more than 1 325 delegates from a selection of Somalia’s various regions and clans to<br />talk about and propose solutions to Somalia’s protracted problems, the conference<br />was concluded on 30 August 2007 showing little for participants’ efforts. This<br />initiative came after a spate of fighting in Somalia that has not only been labelled the<br />“worst violence in Somalia’s 16 years of war and turmoil”, but also, “the worst single<br />displacement of people this year anywhere in the world” (Nordland, 2007:60).
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/46
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 36, Iss 1 (2011)
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
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dc.title	SOMALIA 2007: STARTING FROM SCRATCH ON THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO PEACE AND DEMOCRACY?
dc.type	Article