Diaspora Media Role in Conflict and Peace Building from the Perspectives of Somali Diaspora in Canada

This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland. Considering the impacts of conflict on migration in the past decades, it is important to understand the capacity of diasporic media to escalate or deescalate conflicts and to serve as a source of information for their audiences in a competitive and fragmented media landscape. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, the chapters examine how the diasporic media projects the constructive and destructive outcomes of conflicts to their particularistic audiences within the global public sphere. The result is a volume that makes an important contribution to scholarship by offering critical engagements and analyzing how the diasporic media communicates information and facilitates dialogue between conflicting parties, while adding to new avenues of empirical case studies and theory development in comprehending the media coverage of conflict.https://source.sheridancollege.ca/pilon_book/1013/thumbnail.jp

Somali Contract Law: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives

The essay frames the rules on contract law in Somalia in the constitutional framework. The essay compares Somali contract law with the systems provided for in other Islamic African countries, and pays particular attention to the development of Somalia as a federal state and its implications for the rules on contract law

Fractionality in Homogeneity? Value differences and Cross-Cultural Conflict in Somalia

Despite the fact that intra-state conflict is a common feature of post-colonial African states, the seemingly endless nature of the Somali crisis has necessitated this study. The Somali case has proved immune to peace talks, military interventions, restructuring of governments by the international community, etc. The crisis had lingered, producing alarming figures of dead and displaced persons; a collapsed State, giving room for anarchy; unhindered militia presence on both land and sea; and persistently becoming a menace and threat to the peace of its immediate neighbours, the region and the world. All these visible manifestations of the Somali state can be regarded as convulsions of its internal value differences. Thus, this study seeks to examine the Somali value systems, the differences emanating from the jealous protection of such values, and how they have rendered conflict resolution attempts futile. With more emphasis on the structure of the Somali society, this study explores its unique stratifications that have kept the state collapsed. A descriptive-analytical approach is applied, while the data are basically collected from secondary sources. The findings of this research reveal the divisive characteristics of values which have manifested in segmentation, clannism, loyalty, among others. It has led to the endless violent struggle for dominance among the clans and social classes culminating in a total collapse of the state. It is therefore concluded that value differences have been detrimental to the peace of Somalia. This study recommends, among others, that genuine resolution efforts should thoroughly consider and engage these value differences. Keywords: clannism, conflict, loyalty, values, value differences