Somalia

Somalia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Somalia book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

War and Peace in Somalia

Michael Keating,Matt Waldman
War and Peace in Somalia Book PDF

Author : Michael Keating,Matt Waldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190057961

Get Book

War and Peace in Somalia by Michael Keating,Matt Waldman Pdf

For the last thirty years Somalia has experienced violence and upheaval. Today, the international effort to help Somalis build a federal state and achieve stability is challenged by deep-rooted grievances, local conflicts and a powerful insurgency led by Al-Shabaab. Consisting of forty-four chapters by conflict resolution specialists and the world's leading experts on Somalia, this volume constitutes a unique compendium of insights into the insurgency and its impact. War and Peace in Somalia explores the legacies of past violence, especially impunity, illegitimacy and exclusion, and the need for national reconciliation. Drawing on decades of experience and months of field research, the contributors throw light on diverse forms of local conflict, its interrelated causes, and what can be done about it. They share original research on the role of women, men and youth in the conflict, and present new insight into Al-Shabaab--particularly the group's multi-dimensional strategy, the motivations of its fighters, their foreign links, and the prospects for engagement. This ground-breaking volume illuminates the war in Somalia, and sets out what can and should be done to bring it to an end. For policymakers and researchers covering Somalia, East Africa, extremism or conflict resolution, this is a must-read.

Famine in Somalia

Daniel G. Maxwell,Nisar Majid
Famine in Somalia Book PDF

Author : Daniel G. Maxwell,Nisar Majid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Famines
ISBN : 1849045755

Get Book

Famine in Somalia by Daniel G. Maxwell,Nisar Majid Pdf

Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-12, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more. Yet this crisis had been predicted nearly a year earlier. The harshest drought in Somalia's recent history coincided with a global spike in food prices, hitting this arid, import-dependent country hard. The policies of Al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group that controlled southern Somalia, exacerbated an already difficult situation, barring most humanitarian assistance, while donors counter-terrorism policies led to cuts and criminalized any aid falling into their hands. A major disaster resulted from the production and market failures precipitated by the drought and food price crisis, while the famine itself was the result of the failure to quickly respond to these events-and was thus largely human-made. This book analyses the famine: the trade-offs between competing policy priorities that led to it, the collective failure in response, and how those affected by it attempted to protect themselves and their livelihoods.It also examines the humanitarian response, including actors that had not previously been particularly visible in Somalia-from Turkey, the Middle East, and Islamic charities worldwide.

Piracy in Somalia

Awet Tewelde Weldemichael
Piracy in Somalia Book PDF

Author : Awet Tewelde Weldemichael
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108496964

Get Book

Piracy in Somalia by Awet Tewelde Weldemichael Pdf

Following six years of extensive fieldwork, Weldemichael examines the international causes, internal dynamics, and domestic consequences of piracy in Somalia.

Somalia in Word and Image

Katheryne S. Loughran
Somalia in Word and Image Book PDF

Author : Katheryne S. Loughran
Publisher : Foundation for Cross Cultural Understanding
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art, Somali
ISBN : UOM:39015011040345

Get Book

Somalia in Word and Image by Katheryne S. Loughran Pdf

A collection of articles that highlight Somalia's artistic and literary heritage.

Al-Shabaab in Somalia

Stig Jarle Hansen
Al Shabaab in Somalia Book PDF

Author : Stig Jarle Hansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199327874

Get Book

Al-Shabaab in Somalia by Stig Jarle Hansen Pdf

Hansen explores the history of the Somalia based Al Harakat Al Shabaab from 2005 to 2012, offering the first in-detail history of one of the most important Al-Qaeda affiliates today and the first to conquer large territories. He anchors the organisation in its local context, describing it as set in the nexus of global and local streams of influence, employing terror strategically, often in order to offset diplomatic and military defeats. He then follows it as an early network into the post-2010 phase where it struggles against a superior enemy but still remains an actor to be reckoned with.

Somalia

Mike Graf
Somalia Book PDF

Author : Mike Graf
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0736811087

Get Book

Somalia by Mike Graf Pdf

Describes the landscape, culture, food, animals, sports, and holidays of Somalia.

The Suicidal State in Somalia

Mohamed Haji Ingiriis
The Suicidal State in Somalia Book PDF

Author : Mohamed Haji Ingiriis
Publisher : UPA
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761867203

Get Book

The Suicidal State in Somalia by Mohamed Haji Ingiriis Pdf

This book is a critical reposition of the study of military regimes in Africa. Documenting and delving deep into the reign and rule of General Mohamed Siad Barre regime in Somalia from 1969 up to 1991, the book puts emphasis on African agencies—ostensibly shaped by external beneficiaries and patrons—over what went wrong with Africa after the much-awaited post-colonial period. It does so by critically engaging with the wider theoretical and conceptual frameworks in African Studies which more often than not tend to attribute the post-colonial African State raptures to colonialism. The main thesis of the book is that colonialism left Africa on its own space wherein African leaders could have made a difference. By putting discrete perspectives into historical context, the book circumnavigates through comparative and comprehensive holistic approach to the Siad Barre regime to reveal how colonialism did not produce less than what criminalisation of the State resulted in Somalia. This empirical analysis is crucial to understanding the contemporary conundrum facing the Somali world today. The argument is that the contemporary conflicts are not only attributable to—but also because of—the past plunders of the post-colonial leaders trained by the departed colonial authorities. Employing nuanced analytic concepts and categories, the aim of the book is to refine the past to recapture the present and envision the future. Framing new ways of analyzing military regimes in Africa begins with (re)assessment of how the Siad Barre regime was previously approached. Marshalling extensive and extraordinary amount of sources, the book unveils the intricacies and contradictions of the dictatorship and its impact on the Somali psyche. The book locates the evolution of the regime within the wider context of the Cold War political contestation between the East and the West. Unparalleled in-depth and analysis, this book is the first full-length scholarly study of the Siad Barre regime systematically explaining the politics and process of the dictatorial rule. The historicity of exploring Somali State trajectory entails employing a Braudelian longue durée approach. Thus, three interrelated sets of contexts/questions inform the study: how Siad Barre himself came into power, how he ruled and maintained his authoritarian reign over the Somalis and who had assisted him from inside and outside the Somali world.

“Here Is Hell”

Grant Dawson
Here Is Hell Book PDF

Author : Grant Dawson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774840163

Get Book

“Here Is Hell” by Grant Dawson Pdf

Grant Dawson's analysis of political, diplomatic, and military decision making avoids a narrow focus on the shocking offences of a few Canadian soldiers, deftly investigating the broader context of the deployment in Somalia. He shows how media pressure, government optimism about the United Nations, and the Canadian traditions of multilateralism and peacekeeping all helped to determine the level, length, and tenor of the country's operations. His findings will undoubtedly play a seminal role in informing scholarly debate about this important period in Canadian diplomacy and military engagement.

The Invention of Somalia

Ali Jimale Ahmed
The Invention of Somalia Book PDF

Author : Ali Jimale Ahmed
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0932415997

Get Book

The Invention of Somalia by Ali Jimale Ahmed Pdf

This study analyses the basic assumptions which,had informed the construction of the now,discredited Somali myth.,.

Unraveling Somalia

Catherine Besteman
Unraveling Somalia Book PDF

Author : Catherine Besteman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812290165

Get Book

Unraveling Somalia by Catherine Besteman Pdf

In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. During the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's disintegration as the result of ancestral hatreds played out in warfare between various clans and subclans. In Unraveling Somalia, Catherine Besteman challenges this view and argues that the actual pattern of violence—inflicted disproportionately on rural southerners—contradicts the prevailing model of ethnic homogeneity and clan opposition. She contends that the dissolution of the Somali nation-state can be understood only by recognizing that over the past century and a half there emerged in Somalia a social order based on principles other than simple clan organization—a social order deeply stratified on the basis of race, status, class, region, and language.

From Somalia with Love

Na'ima B. Robert
From Somalia with Love Book PDF

Author : Na'ima B. Robert
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781907666063

Get Book

From Somalia with Love by Na'ima B. Robert Pdf

"My name is Safia Dirie. My family has always been my mum, Hoyo, and my two older brothers, Ahmed and Abdullahi. I don't really remember Somalia - I'm an East London girl, through and through. But now Abo, my father, is coming from Somalia to live with us, after 12 long years. How am I going to cope?" Safia knows that there will be changes ahead but nothing has prepared her for the reality of dealing with Abo's cultural expectations, her favourite brother Ahmed's wild ways, and the temptation of her cousin Firdous's party-girl lifestyle. Safia must come to terms with who she is - as a Muslim, as a teenager, as a poet, as a friend, but most of as a daughter to a father she has never known. Safia must find her own place in the world, so both father and daughter can start to build the relationship they both long for. From Somalia With Love is one girl's quest to discover who she is - a story that, while rooted in Somali and Muslim life, strikes a chord with young people everywhere. To watch a trailer for From Somalia, With Love click here This title is also available as an ebook, in either Kindle, ePub or Adobe ebook editions

Clan Cleansing in Somalia

Lidwien Kapteijns
Clan Cleansing in Somalia Book PDF

Author : Lidwien Kapteijns
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812207583

Get Book

Clan Cleansing in Somalia by Lidwien Kapteijns Pdf

In 1991, certain political and military leaders in Somalia, wishing to gain exclusive control over the state, mobilized their followers to use terror—wounding, raping, and killing—to expel a vast number of Somalis from the capital city of Mogadishu and south-central and southern Somalia. Manipulating clan sentiment, they succeeded in turning ordinary civilians against neighbors, friends, and coworkers. Although this episode of organized communal violence is common knowledge among Somalis, its real nature has not been publicly acknowledged and has been ignored, concealed, or misrepresented in scholarly works and political memoirs—until now. Marshaling a vast amount of source material, including Somali poetry and survivor accounts, Clan Cleansing in Somalia analyzes this campaign of clan cleansing against the historical background of a violent and divisive military dictatorship, in the contemporary context of regime collapse, and in relationship to the rampant militia warfare that followed in its wake. Clan Cleansing in Somalia also reflects on the relationship between history, truth, and postconflict reconstruction in Somalia. Documenting the organization and intent behind the campaign of clan cleansing, Lidwien Kapteijns traces the emergence of the hate narratives and code words that came to serve as rationales and triggers for the violence. However, it was not clans that killed, she insists, but people who killed in the name of clan. Kapteijns argues that the mutual forgiveness for which politicians often so lightly call is not a feasible proposition as long as the violent acts for which Somalis should forgive each other remain suppressed and undiscussed. Clan Cleansing in Somalia establishes that public acknowledgment of the ruinous turn to communal violence is indispensable to social and moral repair, and can provide a gateway for the critical memory work required from Somalis on all sides of this multifaceted conflict.

Fighting for Peace in Somalia

Paul D. Williams
Fighting for Peace in Somalia Book PDF

Author : Paul D. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192560414

Get Book

Fighting for Peace in Somalia by Paul D. Williams Pdf

Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organizations, Harakat al-Shabaab. The book's two parts provide a history of the mission from its genesis in an earlier, failed regional initiative in 2005 up to mid-2017, as well as an analysis of the mission's six most challenges, namely, logistics, security sector reform, civilian protection, strategic communications, stabilization, and developing a successful exit strategy. These issues are all central to the broader debates about how to design effective peace operations in Africa and beyond. AMISOM was remarkable in several respects: it would become the African Union's (AU) largest peace operation by a considerable margin deploying over 22,000 soldiers; it became the longest running mission under AU command and control, outlasting the nearest contender by over seven years; it also became the AU's most expensive operation, at its peak costing approximately US$1 billion per year; and, sadly, AMISOM became the AU's deadliest mission. Although often referred to as a peacekeeping operation, AMISOM's troops were given a range of daunting tasks that went well beyond the realm of peacekeeping, including VIP protection, war-fighting, counterinsurgency, stabilization, and state-building as well as supporting electoral processes and facilitating humanitarian assistance. Tana Forum Annual Book Launch 2019 Winner.

Somalia - The Untold Story

Judith Gardner,Judy El Bushra
Somalia The Untold Story Book PDF

Author : Judith Gardner,Judy El Bushra
Publisher : CIIR
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0745322085

Get Book

Somalia - The Untold Story by Judith Gardner,Judy El Bushra Pdf

Explores the experiences of women in Somalia and how they have survived the trauma of war.

Understanding Somalia

I. M. Lewis
Understanding Somalia Book PDF

Author : I. M. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070086918

Get Book

Understanding Somalia by I. M. Lewis Pdf

Lewis brings his considerable knowledge of the area to set out in accessible form and in highly readable style the complexities of Somali societal and clan structure, traditions, and historically significant events. This information handbook is recommended briefing material for aid workers or journalists visiting the area. Essential reading for those planning to visit or work in Somalia, and for the general reader with an interest in the Horn, it lifts the veil on a fascinating and functioning heritage.