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Whose peace is it anyway? connecting Somali and international peacemaking

Feb 2010
Accord 21, Whose peace is it anyway? connecting Somali and international peacemaking, seeks to improve understanding and links between Somalis and international policy and practice. Edited by Mark Bradbury and Sally Healy it contains over 30 articles including interviews with Somali elders and senior diplomats, and contributions from Somali and international peacemaking practitioners, academics, involved parties, civil society and women’s organisations.

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.

Order out of chaos: Somali customary law in Puntland and Somaliland

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Abdulrahman Osman ‘Shuke’ describes how local peace processes draw on traditional practices of negotiation, mediation and arbitration conducted by clan elders using customary law as a moral and legal framework.

The role of Somaliland elders in making and keeping peace: a conversation with Hajji Abdi Hussein Yusuf

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Hajji Abdi Hussein Yusuf, a respected elder from Somaliland, discusses the qualities that Somali elders are expected to possess and the role they play in maintaining peace.

Somaliland: 'home grown' peacemaking and political reconstruction

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Ulf Terlinden and Mohamed Hassan chart the history of Somaliland’s political development from indigenous grassroots peacebuilding processes in the early 1990s to the development of a democratic political system from 2002.

Experiences of constitution making in Somalia, Puntland and Somaliland: sub-section introduction

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Sally Healy discusses the constitution-making process in Somaliland and Puntland and the absence of progress at the national level in Somalia.

An opportunity for peacebuilding dialogue? Somalia's constitution-making process

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Kirsti Samuels explains how, for a society emerging from civil war, a constitution building process provides opportunities for reconciliation and for achieving consensus on areas of division.

Making the Somaliland constitution and its role in democratisation and peace

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Ibrahim Hashi Jama’s article explores the making of the Somaliland constitution and how it has been used to maintain peace and uphold democracy.

Puntland constitutional review process

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Ahmed Abbas Ahmed and Ruben Zamora explore experiences of drawing up a constitution in Puntland, where this process has helped to consolidate peace and create structures of government.

How does it end? Towards a vision of a Somali state

Whose peace is it anyway? Connecting Somali and international peacemaking
Feb 2010
Mark Bradbury and Sally Healy draw policy lessons from Somali and international peacemaking explored in Accord 21, arguing that the international community needs to find methods that are more responsive to Somali realities and more accountable to Somali constituencies.

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