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By Judy el-Bushra and Judith Gardner
Mary Harper’s book Getting Somalia wrong? Faith, hope and war in a shattered state paints a picture of Somalia as a vibrant and resilient society, for which statehood is, and may always have been, an unsuitable model. International efforts to bring it into line with the conventional model of [...]
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Yet rather than seek a solution in Somalia’s traditions and proven successes, Western policy has favored pursuing direct action against suspected terrorist threats, recreating a central government based on power sharing among the factions and establishing formal state institutions to solidify security — all Sisyphian tasks.
Continue Reading →The dominant interventionist approach to peace and security in Africa by-passes the hard work of creating domestic political consensus and instead imposes models of government favoured by western powers. The emergent African methodology offers a chance to develop locally-rooted solutions too often sidelined.
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