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dc.contributor.authorLeonard, David K.en
dc.contributor.authorSamantar, Mohameden
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-06T13:56:44Z
dc.date.available2016-01-06T13:56:44Z
dc.date.issuedJanuary 2013en
dc.identifier.citationLeonard, D., K. and Samantar, M. (2013) Reconstructing Political Order Among the Somalis: The Historical Record in the South and Centre. IDS Bulletin 44(1): 44-52en
dc.identifier.issn1759-5436en
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/7396
dc.description.abstractThe reconstruction of a larger polity in a violence?torn society such as Somalia requires negotiation of a new social contract between the superordinate body and the local units of governance that have provided citizens some degree of order throughout the conflict. In this article we show that the very different trajectories for state?building in the north and south of the country result in good part from different attention to this generalisation. The founding leaders in Somaliland and Puntland consulted extensively with the assemblies of elders and were able to create civilian constitutional orders. Military leaders in the south and central regions did not incorporate their elders into their political systems, even though they controlled similar amounts of territory to their counterparts in the north. Ultimately various Islamic movements did build on community?level governance and used it to successfully challenge the old ‘warlords’ but most of those allied with the Transitional Federal Government remain weak at the community base.en
dc.format.extent9en
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Bulletin Vol. 44 Nos. 1en
dc.rights.urihttp://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse.pdfen
dc.titleReconstructing Political Order Among the Somalis: The Historical Record in the South and Centreen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.rights.holder© 2013 The Authors. IDS Bulletin © 2013 Institute of Development Studiesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1759-5436.12006en


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