Somaliland youth violence and youth role role in peacebuilding: Baseline survey

Type: PDF Size: 362Kb Published: August 1, 2015

This report seeks to understand the perceptions young people have about trends in youth violence in Somaliland, including extent, actors and causes. It also seeks to lay a foundation for youth empowerment by asking youth what is needed to improve their ability [...]

Puntland Nabad Ah: Astaynta Horumarka

Type: PDF Size: 2Mb Published: November 1, 2015

Qoraalkani waa natiijada cilmibaaris sannad qaadatay oo lagu soo ogaanayey caqabadaha iyo fursadaha ka jira arrimaha la xiriira dimuqraadiyaynta, baahinta maamulka iyo amniga iyo sarraynta sharciga. Waxa lagu fuliyey Barnaamijka Tiirarka Nabadda wajigeeda 2aad [...]

Peace in Puntland: Mapping the progress

Type: PDF Size: 2Mb Published: November 1, 2015

This report is the product of a yearlong research on the challenges, opportunities and prospect of demoratization, decentralization and security and rule of law in Puntland. It was implemented under the Pillars of Peace (PoP II) programme through the joint eff [...]

Somaliland’s progress towards peace: Mapping the community perspective

Type: PDF Size: 5Mb Published: August 3, 2015

The Academy for Peace and Development (APD) is proud to present its Pillar Note – the central document of its Pillars of Peace II programme. The pillar note brings together the findings of an extensive mapping exercise carried out across Somaliland by APD at [...]

Puntland’s political transformation: Taking the first steps toward democratic elections

Type: PDF Size: 6Mb Published: June 1, 2015

This report highlights the progress and stages of Puntland’s democratization process and explains the challenges it has encountered, focusing primarily on the aborted 2013 local council elections and its aftermath. [...]

Confronting the future of Somaliland’s democracy

Type: PDF Size: 2Mb Published: May 1, 2015

This report examines the process through which the 2012 elections were held. It highlights challenges that faced major stakeholders, and reflects upon the Academy for Peace and Development’s (APD) sustained efforts to analyse these challenges and help devise [...]

The effect of a cyclone in Puntland

Published: February 28, 2014
Author: Puntland Development Research Center

The film documents the effects of a cyclone in Puntland, Somalia and was created by the Puntland Development Research Centre (PDRC), one of Interpeace's local peacebuilding partners. It documents the actual situation on the ground and advocates for humanitaria [...]

Bare-Kaabe

Type: PDF Size: 4Mb Published: September 11, 2013

This manual has been developed as a practical guide for secondary and post-secondary teachers. It provides them with input on approaches and tools that aid awareness-raising in young people of issues relating to peace, democracy and security, and create opport [...]

Teacher facilitation guide

Type: PDF Size: 9Mb Published: September 11, 2013

This manual has been developed as a practical guide for secondary and post-secondary teachers. It provides them with input on approaches and tools that aid awareness-raising in young people of issues relating to peace, democracy and security, and create opport [...]

The search for peace – A peace mapping study

Published: May 7, 2013
Author: Interpeace

This video provides examples of locally-driven peace processes in which clans peacefully mediated the end to violent conflicts and disputes in the Somali region after the civil war of 1991. [...]

Puntland: Civic education programme through traditional delivery

Published: April 25, 2013
Author: Interpeace

The video presents the screening of the film documenting the civic education campaign during an awareness-raising workshop for students in a secondary school in the town of Galkayo. [...]

PDRC Anti-Piracy Campaign

Published: February 12, 2013
Author: Interpeace

This video shows the Mobile Audio-Visual team in action, pursuing its awareness raising campaign on piracy in Puntland with a visit to the coastal town of Gara’ad, in the Jariban District. The short film screened in coastal villages emphasizes the fact that [...]

Planting democracy in Puntland

Published: November 6, 2012
Author: Interpeace

As part of Puntland’s preparations for local elections in 2012, a team from our local partner, the Puntland Development Research Center, accompanied the Transitional Puntland Electoral Commission on a tour to raise awareness of the democratization process. [...]

Vote for peace II

Type: PDF Size: 2Mb Published: September 17, 2012

This report was produced by Interpeace's local partner in Somaliland, the Academy for Peace and Development (APD) and analyzes the political and social dynamics that shaped the electoral process in the lead up to and aftermath of the 2010 presidential election [...]

Women, poetry and video: The success of an inventive peacebuilding tool in Puntland

Published: September 14, 2012
Author: Interpeace

This video shows the work of the women of the Bari region of Puntand in their pursuit of peace. They brought their creativity into play to convey messages of peace among two separate communities and helped to bring warring clans back to the negotiation table. [...]

Somali women: A force for peace

Published: September 3, 2012
Author: Interpeace

This video portrays Somali women as extraordinary peacebuilders for whom peace must be attained “at any cost.” It emphasizes the importance of women in society and in the economy, highlighting the importance of investing in girls’ education. [...]

Pillars of peace: In pursuit of peace

Type: PDF Size: 6Mb Published: July 12, 2012

The latest report In Pursuit of Peace Challenges and Opportunities in the Central Regions presented by Interpeace and the Center for Research and Dialogue (CRD) highlights how to make the most of the progressive stabilization of the security situation [...]

Somali women – Agents of change

Published: October 18, 2011
Author: Puntland Development Research Center

In this video Somali women express their views on the role women play to prevent conflict and build peace in their country. The video shows several testimonies demonstrating why women are the real agents of change, being “the glue that holds society together [...]

Somali programme overview

Type: PDF Size: 282Kb Published: August 17, 2011

This document summarizes all Interpeace activities in the Somali Region. It provides an overview of Interpeace's collaboration with its three Somali partner organizations, the Academy for Peace and Development (APD) (Somaliland), the Puntland Development Resea [...]

Pillars of Peace Somali programme

Type: PDF Size: 3Mb Published: November 19, 2010

This report (and accompanying films) is designed to formally capture the findings of the Pillar Mapping Exercise both as a record for those who were involved, and as a formal presentation of the findings. [...]

Puntland Note: Mapping the foundations of peace

Type: PDF Size: 3Mb Published: November 25, 2010

This report is designed to formally capture the findings of the Pillar Mapping Exercise both as a record for those who were involved, and as a formal presentation of findings and lingering areas around which divergences remain and thus require further particul [...]

Baaqa Mombasa ee Mabadi’ida Nabadda

Type: PDF Size: 12Kb Published: December 11, 2011

This document presents the principles of peace that were adopted by the participants of the Mombasa conference between 7 and 11 December 2009. [...]

Mombasa Declaration of the principles of peace

Type: PDF Size: 12Kb Published: December 11, 2009

This document presents the principles of peace that were adopted by the participants of the Mombasa conference between 7 and 11 December 2009. [...]

War-murtiyeedkii ka soo baxay shirkii Mombasa

Type: PDF Size: 26Kb Published: December 11, 2009

The Communiqué of the Mombasa conference held from 7 to 11 December 2009 an official statement of all the Mombasa conference participants. [...]

Communiqué of the Mombasa conference

Type: PDF Size: 22Kb Published: December 11, 2009

The Communiqué of the Mombasa conference held from 7 to 11 December 2009 is an official statement of all the Mombasa conference participants. [...]

A synthesis report of the Peace Mapping Study

Type: PDF Size: 1Mb Published: June 10, 2009

The research presented in this report was undertaken on 11 peace processes published in five volumes. Volume II provides an overview of the internationally mediated peace processes since 1991 and examines three important conferences in detail. Volumes III to V [...]

A history of mediation in Somalia since 1988

Type: PDF Size: 1Mb Published: May 14, 2009

This publication in the Peace Mapping Study series investigates the history of mediation in Somalia since 1988 and takes the proceedings in the three regions of Somalia, Puntland, Somaliland and South-Central Somalia into consideration. [...]

The search for peace

Type: PDF Size: 235Kb Published: September 17, 2009 Author: Dr. Pat Johnson

This article examines the search for peace and draws lessons from Somali-led peace processes from 1991 to 2007. The article was published in the edited volume Making a difference published by the European Commission. [...]

2008 Interpeace Partners Forum: Peacebuilding and statebuilding

Type: PDF Size: 184Kb Published: November 12, 2008

The purpose of the 2008 Interpeace Partners Forum was to provide a space for reflection on the questions and challenges related to the nexus between peacebuilding and statebuilding. About 35 people from different sectors, including governments, UN, EU and NGOs [...]

Community-based peace processes in South-Central Somalia

Type: PDF Size: 4Mb Published: July 9, 2008

This edition of the Peace Mapping Study examines peace initiatives in the Somali Region (South-Central Somalia) since 1991 and focuses on community-based peace processes. The overall aim of the study was to enhance current approaches to and capacities for reco [...]

The Puntland experience

Type: PDF Size: 1Mb Published: July 17, 2008

This edition of the Peace Mapping Study examines peace initiatives in the Somali Region (Puntland) since 1991 at local, regional and national levels. The overall aim of the study was to enhance current approaches to and capacities for reconciliation and the co [...]

Peace in Somaliland

Type: PDF Size: 2Mb Published: May 15, 2008

This edition of the Peace Mapping Study examines peace initiatives in the Somali Region (Somaliland) since 1991 and investigates an indigenous approach to statebuilding. The overall aim of the study was to enhance current approaches to and capacities for recon [...]

Bringing together Somali civil society in the quest for peace

Type: PDF Size: 241Kb Published: March 13, 2008

This unanimous conference report and communiqué summarize the conference proceedings of the civil society meeting held in Entebbe, Uganda on 11 to 13 March 2008. [...]

Pioneers of peace

Type: PDF Size: 1Mb Published: January 27, 2007

This report forms part of a final series of publications designed to formally package the findings of the consultations that were held with all sectors of Somali society. This document focuses on advancing the involvement of women in peacebuilding in South-Cen [...]

A force for change

Type: PDF Size: 1Mb Published: December 4, 2006

This report forms part of a final series of publications designed to formally present the findings of the consultations that were held with all sectors of Somali society. This document focuses on promoting the roles of civil society and the private sector in p [...]

From plunder to prosperity

Type: PDF Size: 3Mb Published: November 17, 2006

This report forms part of a final series of publications designed to formally package the findings of the consultations that were held with all sectors of Somali society. This document focuses on resolving resource-based conflict in Somaliland. The report acts [...]

Roots for good governance

Type: PDF Size: 867Kb Published: November 16, 2006

This report forms part of a final series of publications designed to formally package the findings of the consultations that were held with all sectors of Somali society. This document focuses on establishing the legal foundations for local government in Puntl [...]

Local solutions

Type: PDF Size: 1Mb Published: September 14, 2006

This report forms part of a final series of publications designed to formally package the findings of the consultations that were held with all sectors of Somali society. This document focuses on creating an enabling environment for decentralization in Somalil [...]

Peacemaking at the crossroads

Type: PDF Size: 2Mb Published: September 21, 2006

This report forms part of a final series of publications designed to formally present the findings of the consultations that were held with all sectors of Somali society. This document focuses on the consolidation of the 1993 Mudug Peace Agreement. The report [...]

A vote for peace

Type: PDF Size: 2Mb Published: September 15, 2006

This report forms part of a final series of publications designed to formally present the findings of the consultations that were held with all sectors of Somali society. This document focuses on how Somaliland successfully hosted its first parliamentary elect [...]

Funding the future

Type: PDF Size: 1Mb Published: July 14, 2006

This report forms part of a final series of publications designed to formally package the findings of the consultations that were held with all sectors of Somali society. This document focuses on laying the foundations for the equitable and accountable managem [...]

Dialogue not guns

Type: PDF Size: 1Mb Published: July 12, 2006

This report forms part of a final series of publications designed to formally package the findings of the consultations that were held with all sectors of Somali society. This document focuses on promoting security and stabilization among the communities of So [...]

Human (in)security and cities

Type: PDF Size: 206Kb Published: June 15, 2006 Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

This report synthesizes insights into the nexus Human (In)security and Urban Spaces that emerged from six case studies. The towns and cities examined in this report are: Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Bujumbura (Burundi), Burao (Somaliland), Galcayo (Puntlan [...]

Evaluation of the War-Torn Societies Project in Somaliland (2002)

Type: PDF Size: 485Kb Published: September 18, 2002

This document presents the results of an external evaluation of the War-Torn Societies Project (now Interpeace) in Somaliland. The evaluation was carried out in July and August 2002 and addresses the immediate impact of the project. [...]

Evaluation of the War-Torn Societies Project in Somaliland (2001)

Type: PDF Size: 204Kb Published: March 20, 2001 Author: Mary Hope Schwoebel

This report presents the findings of an impact evaluation of the War-Torn Societies Project (now Interpeace) in Somaliland. [...]