Reconciliation

Political representation in Somalia: citizenship, clanism and territoriality

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Markus Hoehne examines Somali notions of ‘belonging’ and reviews political representation in internationally-mediated peace conferences and local political representation in Sool region.

Somali peace agreements: fuelling factionalism

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Warsan Cismaan Saalax and Abdulaziz Ali Ibrahim ‘Xildhiban’ discuss the recurrent dilemma of how to determine legitimate and authoritative representation in formal peace talks and in government.

An African solution to Somalia? A conversation with Nicolas Bwakira

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia discusses the role that the AU Mission in Somalia is playing in support of Somalia’s transitional government.

Security and stabilization in Somalia

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Jeremy Brickhill critiques international involvement in Somali in relation to security, arguing that the strategy of building a state with a monopoly of violence has not worked, while security arrangements are central to endogenous Somali peace processes.

Regional engagement in Somalia: a conversation with HE Engineer Mahboub M. Maalim

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Executive Secretary HE Eng. Mahboub M. Maalim describes why and how IGAD has supported peace and statebuilding in Somalia.

Public participation

The process for making a transition from war to peace provides an opportunity to agree new political, constitutional and economic arrangements that can deal with the roots of a conflict. However such decisions are often made solely by governments and armed groups’ representatives, who do not always represent the wider public’s interests.

Accord 13 outlines approaches developed by government and civil society that open up the process to more people.

Owning the process: Public participation in peacemaking

Dec 2002

The process for making a transition from war to peace provides an opportunity to agree new political, constitutional and economic arrangements that can deal with the roots of a conflict. However such decisions are often made solely by governments and armed groups’ representatives, who do not always represent the wider public’s interests.

Diplomacy in a failed state: international mediation in Somalia

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Ken Menkhaus critiques six Somali peace conferences to establish why intensive diplomatic interventions have failed to end the Somali crisis.

Northern Ireland

The signing of the 1998 Belfast Agreement in Northern Ireland was the result of long and arduous negotiations to end 30 years of sectarian violence and political stalemate.

Agents for change: The roles of women in Aceh's peace process

Reconfiguring politics: The Indonesia-Aceh peace process
Sep 2008
Suraiya Kamaruzzaman describes women’s roles as advocates and architects of peace in Aceh and their simultaneous exclusion from formal aspects of the peace process. She argues this must change if the peace process is to have sustainable political traction.

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