The Horn of Africa Series
The Horn of Africa Series documents diverse aspects of the work of LPI’s in the Horn of Africa. The focus is on action research informed by - and informing - LPI’s diverse range of activities in the region, in particular support for community-based peacebuilding programmes.
Somalia: Creating space for fresh approaches to peacebuilding
Policy options discussed by decision makers inside and outside Somalia are based primarily on global and regional security concerns. They tend to overlook the local complexities and the potential for nonviolent conflict transformation that exist in the context.
In particular, the black listing of al-Shaabab prevents one of the main stakeholders to participate in the mainstream political process and discourages interest in dialogue from all sides. This means that state and non-state actors are self-censoring themselves, in fear of the consequences that engagement with a proscribed organisation might generate.
There is a scarcity of alternative perspectives among policy makers that could encourage the design of an inclusive peace process in Somalia. These challenges are presented and analysed in a series of articles that has come out of collaboration between the Life & Peace Institute and the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
Building the peace: Experiences and Reflections of Collaborative Peacebuilding. The case of Somalia
Wolfgang Heinrich
The story of the Life & Peace Institute’s innovative programme of support for grassroots peace-building in Somalia.
1997, 2nd ed. 2006, 251 pp.
Price: €20 $25
Creating Humanitarian Space
Damas Deng
A study of the root causes and effects of the conflicts on the Horn of Africa and the refugee influxes into Sudan.
2006 (76pp.)
Price: €7 $9
Local Traditional Structures in Sudan
A base for building civil society for the promotion of peace and reconciliation//
Raphael K. Badal, 2006.
Price: €15 $20
Community-based Bottom-up Peacebuilding: The Development of the Life & Peace Institute’s Approach to Peacebuilding and Lessons Learned from the Somalia Experience (1990-2000)
Thania Paffenholz
Makes the important experiences of LPI in Somalia available for the interested community of researchers and practitioners of conflict transformation and peacebuilding.
Also available in French.
2003, 2nd ed. 2006, 90 pp.
Price: €15 $20
Queens Without Crowns: Somaliland’s Women’s Changing Roles and Peace Building
Amina Mohamoud Warsame
The research project on the situation of the women in war-torn Somaliland helps us see the situation of women in many complex conflict scenarios of today. It ouches vital values and principles in the international peace and development discourse.
Also available in French.
2002, 2nd ed 2004, 90 pp.
Price: €15 $20
Ready and Willing...but still Waiting
Eritrean Refugees in Sudan and the Dilemmas of Return
Gaim Kibreab
Examines the dilemmas facing the nearly 400 000 Eritrean refugees still living in Sudan.
1996, 230 pp.
Price: €20 $25
Trading Places: Alternative Models of Economic Co-operation in the Horn of Africa
Lucia Ann McSpadden (ed.)
Published in co-operation with the Pastoral Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa. A Set of essays proposing practical and mutually advantageous strategies for promoting economic co-operation within the Horn of Africa.
1996, 155 pp.
Price: €15 $20