Rethinking peace-building practices through the Somaliland experience

Marta Regina Fernández y Garcia

Review of African Political Economy, 2017, vol. 44, issue 151, 85-103

Abstract: Reflecting on the Somali case, the article argues that the systematic failures of international interventions in the country have largely derived from the modernising orientation underlying UN peace-building practices. Following this logic, the solution to the Somali problem becomes dependent upon the construction of a centralised authority. Resisting an alternative romanticisation of the Somaliland experiment, the article suggests that the multiple attempts to build a sui generis model of democracy, which combines Western and local forms of governance, are giving way to a hybrid political order that may, in turn, help us to rethink UN peace-building practices in less ethnocentric terms.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2016.1267619

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