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Understanding the Somalia Conflagration

2010-08-15 History
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Release : 2010-08-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Understanding the Somalia Conflagration by : Afyare Abdi Elmi

Download or read book Understanding the Somalia Conflagration written by Afyare Abdi Elmi. This book was released on 2010-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somalia has been devastated by a US-backed Ethiopian invasion and years of civil war, and it has long been without a central government. Against this background of violence, Somali-born Afyare Abdi Elmi attempts to find a peace-building consensus. Somalia is a failed state and a Muslim state. This combination means the West assumes that it will become a breeding ground for extremism. The country regularly hits the headlines as a piracy hotspot. This combination of internal division and outside interference makes for an intensely hostile landscape. Elmi shows that only by going to the roots of the conflict can the long process of peace begin. He highlights clan identities, Islam and other countries in the region as the key elements in any peace-building effort. This unique account from an author who truly understands Somalia should be required reading for students and academics of international relations and peace / conflict studies.

Understanding the Somalia Conflagration

2010 Electronic books
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Release : 2010
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Book Synopsis Understanding the Somalia Conflagration by : Afyare Abdi Elmi

Download or read book Understanding the Somalia Conflagration written by Afyare Abdi Elmi. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the multiple dimensions of the conflict in Somalia and points the way to a peace-building consensus.

Al-Shabaab in Somalia

2013-01-15 Political Science
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Release : 2013-01-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Al-Shabaab in Somalia by : Stig Jarle Hansen

Download or read book Al-Shabaab in Somalia written by Stig Jarle Hansen. This book was released on 2013-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al-Zawahiri and 'AQ centre' in Afghanistan. Itself an offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, which split in 2006, Shabaab has imposed Sharia law and is also heavily influenced by local clan structures within Somalia itself. It remains an infamous and widely discussed, yet little-researched and understood, Islamist group. Hansen's remarkable book attempts to go beyond the media headlines and simplistic analyses based on alarmist or localist narratives and, by employing intensive field research conducted within Somalia, as well as on the ground interviews with Shabaab leaders themselves, explores the history of a remarkable organisation, one that has survived predictions of its collapse on several occasions. Hansen portrays al-Shabaab as a hybrid Islamist organization that combines a strong streak of Somali nationalism with the rhetorical obligations of international jihadism, thereby attracting a not insignificant number of foreign fighters to its ranks. Both these strands of Shabaab have been inadvertently boosted by Ethiopian, American and African Union attempts to defeat it militarily, all of which have come to nought.

Islam and Peacebuilding

2013-02-27 Political Science
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Release : 2013-02-27
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Islam and Peacebuilding by : Ishan Yilmaz

Download or read book Islam and Peacebuilding written by Ishan Yilmaz. This book was released on 2013-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploration of the contributions is made with regards to the title in hand by the thought and practice of the global movement associated with the Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gulen. The importance and distinctiveness of teaching of Gulen and the practice of the movement is that it is rooted in a confident Turkish Islamic heritage while being fully engaged with modernity. It offers the possibility of a contextualised renewal of Islam for Muslims in the modern world while being fully rooted in the teachings of the Qu'ran and the Sunnah of the Prophet. It advocates the freedom of religion while making an Islamic contribution to the wider society based on a commitment to service of others.

State and Societal Challenges in the Horn of Africa

2017-08-04 Political Science
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Release : 2017-08-04
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis State and Societal Challenges in the Horn of Africa by : Collectif

Download or read book State and Societal Challenges in the Horn of Africa written by Collectif. This book was released on 2017-08-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to fruition the research done during the CEA-ISCTE project ‘’Monitoring Conflicts in the Horn of Africa’’, reference PTDC/AFR/100460/2008. The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) provided funding for this project. The chapters are based on first-hand data collected through fieldwork in the region’s countries between 4 January 2010 and 3 June 2013. The project’s team members and consultants debated their final research findings in a one-day Conference at ISCTE-IUL on 29 April 2013. The following authors contributed to the project’s final publication: Alexandra M. Dias, Alexandre de Sousa Carvalho, Aleksi Ylönen, Ana Elisa Cascão, Elsa González Aimé, Manuel João Ramos, Patrick Ferras, Pedro Barge Cunha and Ricardo Real P. Sousa.

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