Somalia Just Before Al-Shabaab: Why Peace Was Elusive

An insightful as well as an involved exploration on peacebuilding in Somalia. The book details the social political background to the conflict in Somalia and the various efforts to repackage a broken-down state. These efforts, as presented, should enable a reader to understand the challenges as well as the impact of vested organisational, national and individual interests on mediation in peace support operations, in general and on Somalia, in particular. Leadership deficit within a situation of differing external dynamics is analysed to assist any reader come to terms with why peace was elusive in Somalia.