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Title

Mending rips in the sky : options for Somali communities in the 21st Century / edited by Hussein M. Adam and Richard Ford.

Publication

Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hussein Mohamed Adam.
• Ford, Richard B.

Description

xxvi, 673 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Subject

• Somalia > History > 1991-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [653]-668) and index.

Contents

Crisis in Somalia / Ali A. Mazrui -- A few words on Somalia's crisis / Mohamed Aden Sheikh -- Light at the end of the tunnel / Ibrahim Megag Samatar -- Somalia : between self-determination and chaos / Mohamed Haji Mukhtar -- The death of Somalia in historical perspective / Charles Geshekter -- New directions in southern Somali history / Lee V. Cassanelli -- Hobbes, Locke, Burke, Ibn Khaldun and reflections on the catastrophe in Somalia / Hussein M. Adam -- Aspects of the Somali tribal system / Abdalla Omar Mansur -- Clanship, kinship, and community among the Rahanweyn / Bernhard Helander -- Somalia : kinship and relationships derived from it / Mohamed-Abdi Mohamed -- Somalia : a destroyed country and a defeated nation / Shamis Hussein -- Forms of violence and ways to control it / Roland Marchal -- The untold apartheid imposed on the Bantu/Jarer people in Somalia / Omar A. Eno -- Somalia : the forgotten people / Amina Sharif Hassan -- The destruction of the Somali state / Mohamud A. Jama -- Somalia : regional state or cantonization of clans? / Ahmed Ashkir Botan -- Analyzing Somalia's past and present economic constraints and opportunities for creating a conducive economic environment / Jamshid Damooei -- Prevention in conflict resolution / Mohamed M. Sahnoun -- Peace-making endeavor of contemporary lineage leaders in "Somaliland" / Ahmed Yusuf Farah -- How peace is maintained in the Northeastern Region / Abdi-asis M. Mohamed -- Creating a democratic law-making process in Somalia / Ann Seidman and Robert B. Seidman -- The potential role of women's groups in reconstruction / Hilarie Kelly -- Somali NGOs / Abdirahman Osman Raghe -- A proposal for reorganizing the health sector in Somalia after the emergency / Abdulahi M. Ahmed, Ranieri Guerra and Augusto Pinto -- Teacher education and reconstruction in Somalia / George Urch -- Rebuilding Somalia / Richard Ford -- Somali refugee women's experience in Kenyan refugee camps and their plight in Canada / Hamdi S. Mohamed -- The Somali crisis in Canada / Ladan Affi -- The plight of the Samali refugees in Europe, with particular reference to Germany / Hassan Adam Uteh -- The Somali impact on Kenya, 1990-1993 / Paul Goldsmith -- The Ogaden after 1991 / Martin Doornbos -- The Somali in the new political order of Ethiopia / John Markakis -- Origins and unfolding of the civil war in Djibouti / Peter J. Schraeder -- The foreign factor in the Somali tragedy / Ahmed Qassim Ali -- Italy and Somalia / Giampaolo Calchi Novati -- The United Nations intervention in Somalia / Maria Brons Bongartz -- African-Americans and the Somali crisis / Edmond J. Keller -- The Somali Studies Symposium : opening remarks / Charles S. Weiss -- "Look, we've got to do something" / Robert Oakley -- Preventing future famine in Somalia / John Prendergast.

Call Number

Sc E 97-882

ISBN

• 1569020736 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1569020744
• 1569020745 (pbk. : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

97010801

OCLC

36521065

Title

Mending rips in the sky : options for Somali communities in the 21st Century / edited by Hussein M. Adam and Richard Ford.

Imprint

Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, c1997.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [653]-668) and index.

Added Author

Hussein Mohamed Adam.

Ford, Richard B.

Research Call Number

Sc E 97-882