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Earlier this spring, I was invited to participate in the launch of Pathways for Peace, an important study jointly developed by the UN and World Bank. Based on extensive research of what has ‘worked’ in different countries, the study sets out recommendations for how development processes can better interact with security, diplomacy, mediation, and …

After the central government overthrown in 1991, Somalia has had a dysfunctional government and many Somalis evacuated the country when the civil war occurred and fled to across Africa, Middle East, Europe and America. Meanwhile, there are enormous factors which have driven the youth to unauthorized immigrants including:- Insecurity: the most …

The Somalis were aid dependent for 27 years and prospects of emancipation from charity are a distant dream, since the Federal Government of Somalia’s (FGS) focus to country and people’s development is neither an issue nor a priority; as the concentration to development is constantly obscured and upset by political …

Almost two decades ago, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked Lakhdar Brahimi, one of the most experienced diplomats to have ever served the U.N., to chair a commission to examine the peacekeeping disasters of the 1990s, from Bosnia to Somalia and Rwanda, to see if any lessons could be learned. …