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David Smock is interviewed on Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia, and event that thrusted Somalia back into the international spotlight.
Raymond Gilpin, Associate Vice President and director of USIP’s Sustainable Economies Center of Innovation, talked about this new development, factors fueling Somali piracy, and offers policy options to address the problem.
Latest from USIP on Somalia
- October 15, 2009 | Event
USIP's Daniel Brumberg joined a panel of guest speakers, including Congressman Keith Ellison, for a lively discussion of USIP's new volume "Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World."
- July 6, 2009 | Resource
Authored by USIP's Raymond Gilpin, this new working paper offers practical strategies to mitigate the rising costs of Somali piracy and lay the foundation for lasting peace. The upsurge in attacks by Somali pirates between 2005 and mid-2009 reflects decades of political unrest, maritime lawlessness and severe economic decline which has dire implications for economic development and political stability in Somalia.
- April 10, 2009 | Resource
Raymond Gilpin, Associate Vice President and director of USIP’s Sustainable Economies Center of Innovation, talked about this new development, factors fueling Somali piracy, and offers policy options to address the problem.
For the past 17 years Somalia has been without an effective central government and most of the country has been in turmoil. Several peace conferences have been held and interim governments have been named, but none has gained legitimacy. Widespread violence, hunger and displacement plague the Somali population. Based on an agreement mediated by the UN in 2008 a more inclusive parliament and executive have been selected, but an insurgency persists & the political outlook is far from clear.
Sporadically over the last 15 years USIP has convened a network of Somali intellectuals in the diaspora. In 1991-92 the Institute provided guidance to the U.S. leaders of Operation Restore Hope. We have sponsored fact-finding missions and issued periodic reports. Conditions have been too unsettled and dangerous to permit projects on the ground in Somalia.