Book Review by Anna Simons of Understanding the Somali Conflagration: Identity, Political Islam and Peacebuilding written by Afyare Abdi Elmi
Loading...
Authors
Simons, Anna
Subjects
Advisors
Date of Issue
2012
Date
Publisher
Language
Abstract
Afyare Abdi Elmi is to be commended. He pulls no punches in Understanding
the Somali Conflagration: Identity, Political Islam and Peacebuilding. Even
better, he gives us a book that is easy to read and helps make sense of the
recent past, as well as some of the present. I write “some of the present”
because the manuscript clearly went to the publisher before the African
Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) was fully underway and before the
recent drought devolved into yet another famine. Unfortunately, piracy
receives less attention in this account than readers might expect, but that
may only further reflect the challenges that inhere in writing books (rather
than blogs) about contemporary events.
Type
Article
Description
Book review by Anna Simons of: Understanding the Somali Conflagration: Identity, Political
Islam and Peacebuilding, by Afyare Abdi Elmi
London: Pluto Press, 2010; pp. 224. $35.00 paper.
Series/Report No
Department
National Security Affairs
Organization
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
Citation
Distribution Statement
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.