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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

[Article]

Marleen Renders

Leiden

Brill

'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'.

2006

117-133

Afrika Focus

19/1-2

2031-356X

African Studies

General

Institutions

Post-War Reconstruction

Social Sciences

Somalia

Somaliland

'Traditional' Leaders

Marleen Renders

10.1163/2031356X-0190102006

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