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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface | |
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| Note on Methods | |
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| Introduction: Conflict and Peace in Somalia | |
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| The Somali conflict: why we should care | |
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| Major arguments | |
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| Statelessness, piracy and peacebuilding | |
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| The Somali conflict | |
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| Challenges to ending the Somali civil war | |
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| Organization of the book | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Understanding the Sources of Somali Conflict | |
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| Somalia: brief background | |
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| Competition for resources and power | |
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| Colonial legacy and military repression | |
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| The peace conferences: why did they fail? | |
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| The Mbagathi conference and transitional federal government | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Clan Identity and Implications for Peacebuilding in Somalia | |
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| The nature of clan identity | |
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| Functions of clan identity | |
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| Clan identity and the Somali civil war | |
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| Impact of clan identity on peacebuilding | |
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| Analysis and options for addressing clan identity in Somalia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Making Sense of Islam and Islamic Awakening in Somalia | |
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| Islam and its role in Somalia | |
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| Islamic awakening: what is it and why is it popular? | |
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| Evolution of Islamic awakening in Somalia | |
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| Islamic movements and their methods of social change | |
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| Islamic courts in Somalia: a vehicle for social change | |
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| The Islamic awakening and its implications for peacebuilding in Somalia | |
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| The future of the Islamic awakening or 'Islamism' in Somalia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Understanding the US Policy toward Somalia | |
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| Context | |
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| War on terror: definitions, principles and goals | |
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| Politics of adding Al-Ittihad and Al-Shabab to the terrorist list | |
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| US support for Somali warlords and the Ethiopian occupation | |
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| The US role in deposing the Union of Islamic Courts | |
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| Somali perceptions of the US role | |
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| The Obama administration and Somalia: Is there any change of policy? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Role of Regional Countries and Organizations in the Somali Conflict | |
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| Ethiopia: historic enemy and hostile neighbour of Somalia | |
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| Ethiopia and post-state collapse in Somalia | |
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| Kenya: facilitator and beneficiary of the conflict | |
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| Djibouti: peace promoter in Somalia | |
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| Regional organizations: instruments used by Ethiopia and Kenya to perpetuate Somalia's conflict | |
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| Analysis and implications for peacebuilding in Somalia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Peacebuilding Education: Contested Resource and Vehicle for Social Transformation | |
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| Education in Somalia: background | |
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| Role of education in the Somalia conflict | |
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| Politics of reconstruction | |
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| Education and identity | |
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| Citizenship education in Somalia | |
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| Peace education in Somalia | |
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| Peacebuilding education in Somalia | |
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| Challenges of using education for social change: analysis and implications | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Role for the International Community: Options and Implications | |
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| Understanding the international community and its role in peacebuilding | |
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| Somalia under a UN trusteeship system | |
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| United Nations transitional administration | |
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| Supporting home-grown solutions | |
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| Conclusion: A Way Forward | |
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| Further research | |
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| Recommendations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |