15 Years After Black Hawk Down: Somalia's Chance?

Author:
John Prendergast
Publisher:
ENOUGH Project
Publication Date:
24 April 2008
Tags:
Conflict, Peace and Security, Somalia, Arms and Military Affairs, Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, United States, Canada and Africa

ENOUGH Co-Chair John Prendergast argues that Somalia is at a crucial crossroads. Just as the Somali insurgency is intensifying, a possible window of opportunity has swung open in the form of an offer by the Prime Minister of the embattled Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government for a power sharing agreement to end the war. This is the first real sign of flexibility from an entity that until now has ruled by exclusion and divisiveness. The country could further descend into a civil war and an emerging famine or it could take this opportunity to reverse the decline through negotiations and internationally-supported state reconstruction.

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