Rebuilding Somalia Drawing on Indigenous Practices

From The Official Blog of Amb. David H. Shinn Fri Nov 21 2014, 16:44:00

Pambazuka News published on 18 November 2014 an analysis titled "Somalia: Let's Just Forget the Past?" by Marco Zoppi, a PhD fellow at Roskilde University in Denmark.  He calls for a bottom-up reconciliation process in Somalia based on the indigenous social contract or at least the integration of some of its tenets.  These include measures for dispute settlement.

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