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Title Transitional civil society, Insecurity and Volatile Environment
Full text http://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/transitional-civil-society-insecurity-and-volatile-environment(ff870745-2b69-4342-aa5b-a6cc15f77d77).html
Date 2014
Author(s) Farah, Abdulkadir Osman; Dini, Shukria
Contributor(s) Farah, Abdulkadir Osman
Abstract Somali women mobilise nationally ' through NGOs and civic movements. They succeeded in overcoming challenges, and confront warlordism and violence. This dimension is well documented and well known by the international community. Lesser-known Somali is the transnational dimension of Somali women's mobilisation. Osman Farah and Shukria Dini contend that Somali Women's transnational efforts for justice and social empowerment, and their efforts of co-operating with transnational NGOs and transnational communities, play a central role in peace and reconciliation processes in Somalia. The two authors argue that the collapse of the Somali state in the 1990s led to the total disintegration of the national security sector institutions, including the national police, the army, and the correctional services. The disintegration of security, combined with the absence of state protection, ushered in violence and human rights abuses, including gender-based violence, that have largely been perpetuated by armed groups who have turned against unarmed civilians for over two decades. As survivors of militarised violence, Somali women and men possess relevant information, knowledge that is essential in designing and implementing activities that are intended to improve security in their communities. This chapter argues that the insecurities faced by members of both genders in Somalia are amalgamations of a number of factors that Somalia, as a nation, has gone through. Some of these factors include bad governance, military regimes, and human rights violations that occurred in different periods of Somalia's history and political stages
Language eng
Publisher Aalborg Universitetsforlag
Type of publication contributionToPeriodical
Source Farah, A O & Dini, S 2014, ' Transitional civil society, Insecurity and Volatile Environment '. in A O Farah (ed.), Transnational NGOs: Creative Connections of Development and Global Governance. Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp. 130-152 .
Repository Aalborg - Aalborg University
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