Understanding Somalia's multidimensional protracted war

An Updated Structural-Processual Analysis

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ID5724807
AuthorsFrancisco Javier Ullán De La Rosa (0000-0002-8011-6294, Department of Sociology II, University of AlicanteCarretera San Vicente del Raspeig s/n, San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain, corresponding author), Sylvester Tabe Arrey (Department of International Relations and Conflict Resolution, The University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon)
Year2021
Volume32
Issue7
Pages1056-1091
Publication date2021-10-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSmall Wars and Insurgencies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0959-2318 • E-ISSN: 1743-9558
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09592318.2021.1880835
OpenAlexW3134126867
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited32

Political violence has uninterruptedly afflicted Somalia since its independence. That amounts to 60 years of uninterrupted conflict, quite a record in contemporary history. For that reason, Somalia has been considered as one of the epitomes of what is known as an intractable conflict and Intractable Conflict Theory (ICT) has used the country as a laboratory to test its frameworks. However, we contend that systemic and very overarching frameworks such as ICT are not very useful to understand the intractability of Somalia’s conflict. This paper proposes instead a historically grounded structural-processual analysis that explains the conflict as the result of the chronological accumulation and dysfunctional overlapping of several sets of structures an actors within Somalia’s society itself and the Horn of Africa leading to the creation of very deep fault lines that create a criss-crossed fabric of conflicting interests, separating and pitting social actors against each other

Conflict analysis · Conflict resolution · Conflict theories · Criminology · Dysfunctional family · Epistemology · French horn · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology

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