17.03.11
"Armed non-state actors and displacement" - Forced Migration Review issue 37 online including an article by Siris Hartkorn, advisor with the Danish Demining Group (DDG):
Community-led stabilisation in Somalia
“Non-state armed groups are often considered to lack legitimacy as potential counterparts in building security institutions but when they are in fact in control, this point of view has to be reviewed.
Somalia has for many years been known as the classic example of a failed state and illustrates clearly how difficult it can be to restore state institutions after their total collapse. Prolonged civil war, famine and poverty have caused a humanitarian crisis with large flows of IDPs and an estimated 3.2 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Yet while increasing numbers of the population are in urgent need of assistance, access by international agencies to provide relief has become more difficult as a result of pressure from Non-State Armed Groups (NSAGs).”
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