Culture Of Somalia Research Paper

Having the opportunity to live in America, we are not commonly exposed to the overwhelming effects of anarchy; however our United States government is known for their involvement in aiding countries experiencing disorder. For more than two decades, the country Somalia dwelled in the ruins of its own nation after the collapse of its civilization. It was considered the world’s most failed state. Recently, as reported in the article, “US recognizes Somalia government after two decades of anarchy” by Mike Pflanz, the United States government began assisting Somalia to rise from the ashes of turmoil and back on their feet. The Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud stresses that “Somalia is emerging from a very long, difficult period and now moving away from the chaos, instability, extremism, piracy, to an era of peaceful and development.” The article also notes the conflicts against Islamic extremists and pirates, who took advantage of the unrest in the country. This relates with the theme

It is worth noting that Somalis are a mostly homogenous population. Specifically, they share a common language, religion (mostly Sunni Muslim, minority Shi'i) and a common historical identity. The main source of internal contention has always been disputes between the four main clan-families; the Dir, Darod, Isaaq, and Hawiye clans.(Jennifer De MaioTITLE:Managing Civil Wars: An Evaluation of Conflict-prevention Strategies in Africa ) However at this point in history, the Somali people, longing to break out from imperial rule, unified briefly under the Salihiyah tariqa, an orthodox muslim brotherhood led by Mahammad Abdille Hasan. The so-called, Dervish rebellion targeted the British and Egyptian

Conflicts within the nation of Somalia were sometimes planned as a means to an end. Whereby the United States Government supported a certain regime before they used their power to gain control of the situation and overthrow the tyrant. In other cases the use of national power was used such as the Islamic Courts Union to gain control over Somalia by implementing logical line of operations by providing the people their needs and services to gain their trust. In these situations it would be considered as an irregular warfare environment, because they were violent struggles

“I don 't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name (Abdi, 2016)”. Over the past 20 years Somalia as a country has been in turmoil and constant fighting. Today’s Somalia is still a harsh environment and the people are unforgiving as they too are trying to survive this oasis of violence. Considering Somalia in the news now we see after years of fighting and trying to support this country with food, water, and security it has progressed but not quickly. It has been a battle for any support to the country essentially taking two steps forward and one step back.

Being about to notice the fact that political leaders and many others in the government are embezzling found was bad enough but that they went as far as to be obvious is even worse, and it describes Somalia perfectly. Somalia has other problems along with a bad government; there a perfect location for terrorist attacks, poverty, hunger, and the rise of warlords. The article, State Failure, State-Building, and Prospects for a “Functional Failed State” in Somalia, tries to describe the issues in building government Institutions to help the people of the country in order for them to become a more developed country. For the last two decades Somalia has been in a bad shape, and construction of (an) institution(s) has been taking an extensive amount of time. Mostly due to the funds not reaching the right places and the lack of motivation to build a better central government. From most of the evidence collected for the article show that local laws seem to work best, people running their towns, homes, and businesses the way that they see best rather than depending on the government to inforce their laws. According to what seems to be working, informal government such as the what the small town made to keep things going peacefully, are better at building institutions then formal governments, thus it said that “institution building might not be for Somalia”. Seeing how the creation and betterment of the formal government institution has created many problems, it’s not a big surprise that small more focused policies work best for a country that can’t depend on its

In 1969, Mohamed Barre seized control and turned into the leader of Somalia. He introduced communist perspectives of nationalized organizations and agreeable homesteads. Government positions in his administration went to factions faithful to him, regardless of his administrations apparently hostile to group laws.

The colonial government in the British Somaliland was not liked by the people. There were many uprisings and this made the British abandon the interior of Somalia and they went for the coasts instead. When they did this, Italy saw an opportunity to take control over the interior. After World War 2, Somalia was given to the United Nations to become a UN trust territory. They

The country of Somalia has undergone massive amounts of armed violence, yet not many people have attempted to stand up for them. The Basic Human Rights, if followed, could turn the downfall of this country overtime into a thriving community repairing itself. The country is so infested with anti-government militias. The country can't help itself but to cower in fear in hope for a

With a long history of violence, rebellion, and chaos, the African country of Somalia now seeks guidance. The country’s violent past started when military forces overthrew the last democratically elected government in October 1969, about 37 years ago. Military rule undermined, and ultimately destroyed the country. The military regime divided citizens into allies and enemies, and rewarded its allies while it punished whole communities. Life conditions in Somalia became so unbearable that the President Bush, Sr. was forced to act, and ordered thousands of American troops to enter Somalia in order to open the roads so that emergency food aid could be urgently delivered to the citizens.

The United States has three main interests in Somalia. The first interest is the abundance of untapped natural resources, especially the oil reserves. Estimates have shown that Somalia could produce as much as 110 billion barrels of oil.4 The second US interest is Somalia’s strategic location. Its coast is a short distance from the sea lane that connects the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. This sea lane has seen many attacks from pirates originating in Somalia, so multiple nations have taken action to protect ships in the area.1 Finally, the U.S. has an interest in Somalia because of the presence of the terrorist organization, al-Shabaab. Al-Shabaab is an al Qaeda affiliate, and their primary goal is to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic State.5 The United States provides support to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) whose main mission is to reduce the threat from al-Shabaab and create a stable government in

Somalian transitional Government is not only needs strong national army that able to provide security to its nation, but also protect the country from external threats to sustain peace. The crumbled public institutions need to be reconstruct and replenished by the public servant, which is impracticable without having security force that could protect these institutions. On top of that, the humanitarian crises miserably harm the Somalian people since inoperability of the environment for the NGO’s and other aid institutions is extremely unfavorable. Failure to stand as a State and instant economic backlash virtually put the country in a condition that it can do nothing without the support of the international community. The meager self-help effort is unreliable and the uncertainty of the situation and the fragile peace shadowed the Somalian presidential election. The current positive action could produce little hope that might quickly degraded and let situation entering in to a vicious cycle if the TGS could not perpetuate peace in Somalia. On the other hand, al-Shabaab’s movement in the region is tactically irregular and sporadic suicidal attack that could develop to a high social and political impact in the region. Anti-American sentiment in Somalia is also one of the challenge that could exacerbate the situation that more US involvement will likely to increase

Since 1991the Civil War began, and during the 90s the United States and the United Nation made several efforts to bring peace to the region which failed. In 1998 the northern punt land region declares autonomy. In the 2000s in Somalia the unrest would continue; from several attempts to have a stable government and bring peace to the region. Ethiopian troops also made an effort to bring peace to the region, but eventually also gave up and left Somalia as well. The country also has problems with pirates, and the terrorist group Al-Shabab who has control over part of the country. It was not until 2012 when Somalis elected their first president and parliament but even then this new government its still dependent on outsiders to stabilized and offer

Amid this civil war, countless Somalis were internally displaced and put out of work, while numerous others fled in search of food

Several factors led to the development of the conflict: the ongoing famine in Somalia caused a civil war, and the United Nations approved of creating a multinational military task force tasked with stopping the slaughter of innocent civilians. The Somali National Alliance (SNA) led by Mohamed Farrah Aidid caused most of the killing and needed to be stopped. The SNA made significantly hampered the success of foreign aid, demanding a task force to stop SNA operations. The battle for Mogadishu resulted in the capture of Mohamed Aidid’s top planners and advisors. Eventually the regime fell and resulted in the clans fighting each other over resources and

Somalia is a country which has gone through an extreme time of hunger, violence and distraught. In the early 1990’s Mohammed Siad Barre leader of Somalia was removed forcibly from power by a union of opposing clans called the United Somalia Congress which, their temporary alliance and partnership soon came to an end dividing the United Somalia Congress into two groups. Mohammed Farah Aidid led one of the groups; Ali Mahdi led the other. The Somalia Civil War between clans consequently destroyed Somalia’s agriculture.