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Fighting for peace in Somalia : a history and analysis of the African Union Mission (AMISOM), 2007-2017
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ISBN: 0191792187 0191036811 0192560417 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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'Fighting for Peace in Somalia' provides a comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in 2007 to stabilise the country and defend its fledgling government from one of the world's deadliest militant organisations, Harakat al-Shabaab. The book's two parts provide a history of the mission from its genesis in an earlier, failed regional initiative in 2005 up to mid-2017, as well as an analysis of the mission's six most important challenges, namely, logistics, security sector reform, civilian protection, strategic communications, stabilisation, and developing a successful exit strategy. These issues are all central to the broader debates about how to design effective peace operations in Africa and beyond.


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The politics of dress in Somali culture
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ISBN: 0253001528 9780253001528 9780253356291 0253356296 9780253223135 025322313X Year: 2011 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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The universal act of dressing -- shared by both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, minority and majority -- has shaped human interactions, communicated hopes and fears about the future, and embodied what it means to be Somali. Heather Marie Akou mines politics and history in this rich and compelling study of Somali material culture. Akou explores the evolution of Somali folk dress, the role of the Somali government in imposing styles of dress, competing forms of Islamic dress, and changes in Somali fashion in the U.S. With the collapse of the Somali state, Somalis continue a connection with their homeland and community through what they wear every day.

Muslims in the diaspora : the Somali communities of London and Toronto
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ISBN: 1281995770 9786611995775 1442677473 9781442677470 0802047076 0802082815 9780802082817 9780802047076 Year: 1999 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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Explores the balancing act of living as a Muslim in the west. It is a comparison of the Somali communities in London, England and Toronto, and is based on a series of in-depth interviews with over 80 Somali women, men and teenagers in those cities.

Overtly Muslim, Covertly Boni : Competing Calls of Religious Allegiance on the Kenyan Coast
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ISSN: 01699814 ISBN: 1281396869 9786611396862 9047408497 9789047408499 9004147535 9789004147539 9781281396860 9789004147539 9004147535 Year: 2006 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL,

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