Traditionele Leiders en Instellingen in Somaliland. Een Somalische Staat in Opbouw

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" Traditionele Leiders en Instellingen in Somaliland. Een Somalische Staat in Opbouw "
Marleen Renders

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063970
Doc. No	:	LA107599
Call No	:	‭10.1163/2031356X-0190102006‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Marleen Renders
Title & Author	:	Traditionele Leiders en Instellingen in Somaliland. Een Somalische Staat in Opbouw [Article]\ Marleen Renders
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Afrika Focus
Date	:	2006
Volume/ Issue Number	:	19/1-2
Page No	:	117–133
Abstract	:	'Traditional' leaders and institutions in Somaliland. A Somali state under construction. This article addresses the prominence of ‘traditional’ leaders and institutions in the Somaliland’s “success-story” of political reconstruction after a violent conflict. Can the Somaliland experience be replicated and serve as a model for other cases of problematic statehood? Through an analysis of the Somaliland case, the article shows that one can not simply ‘use’ traditional leaders and institutions. They are not a-political entities or concepts. They are adaptable and have a dynamic of their own. The 'traditional' order is profoundly connected with 'non-traditional' orders i.e. 'modem' political leaders and institutions. How both develop and interact is contingent upon an aggregate of factors which develop over a long period of time. This set of factors include so-called 'structural' ones as well as ones that are more ‘agency’-related. This aggregation of factors makes the Somali/and experience difficult to replicate. 'Traditional' leaders and institutions are not magic bullets, not a one-fits-all in cases of problematic statehood. They should not be viewed as a-political components of some 'appropriate governance technology' that will provide leaders and institutions supposedly adapted to a timeless 'African situation and culture'.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Institutions
Descriptor	:	Post-War Reconstruction
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Somalia
Descriptor	:	Somaliland
Descriptor	:	'Traditional' Leaders
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/2031356X-0190102006‬