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January 29, 2025

Leadership Capability of Emerging Somali-American Leaders: Surveying by Leadership Practice Inventory

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This study is a replicate of the Leadership Practice Inventory (LPIObserver), a half-a-century-old research instrument. Having every component of the instrument intact, the aim of this study was to evaluate the leadership capability of Somali-American leaders. The study looked into the actions and/or behaviors of 21 emerging, Somali-American leaders in different disciplines in Minnesota, USA. The participants were presented with thirty descriptive statements measuring the following five leadership practices and behaviors: (a) Challenging the Process, (b) Inspiring a Shared Vision, (c) Enabling Others to Act, (d) Modeling the Way, (e) and Encouraging the Heart. The findings show a higher-thanaverage ranking of between 100th and 70th percentile. Compared to the semi-universal, overall score of 89, the result shows an overall score of 114 for the Somali-American leaders.

Keywords:

Somali-Americans, Somali community, leadership practice inventory, leadership competence, Somali diaspora, Somali Minnesotans,

Mogadishu University,

ISOS,

Jan

January 29, 2025

Migration Regime in Toronto and the Roles of Municipal Government in the Economic Integration of Somali Refugees (1991-2011)

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In the early 1990s, the Somalis became one of the top refugee groups in Canada, when Canada was trying to throw away the yoke of economic recession bedeviling the country since the 1980s. Making the matter worse, the socio-economic attributes of those Somali refugees never reflected any possibility of quick access to labor market.
This study explored the migration history of Somali refugees to Canada and how they later became a collection among ethno-racial groups of African descent residents in Toronto. The study investigated the problem of economic integration that confronted the Somalis on arrival to the city.
The study therefore concluded that city governments have assumed more critical roles in immigrant integration and it has become needful to incorporate their views in intergovernmental diplomacy on matters relating to immigration and immigrant integration.

Keywords:

Somali refugees, refugee resettlement, immigration policy, immigrant integration, and Canada,

Mogadishu University,

ISOS,

Jan

January 29, 2025

Diaspora Journalism and the Somali Conflict

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Since its invention, journalism has been required to do at least three things at the same time as outlined by McNair (2005). These are the provision of information required for people to monitor their social environments, a resource for the participation in public life and political debate (what Habermas has called the ‘public sphere’) and a medium of education, enlightenment and entertainment. In conflict societies, however, these principles have been internalized and interpreted through a conflict lens creating a very complex web of media operations that produce contested representations. This article focuses on one such conflict that exemplifies this complexity; the Somali conflict. It concentrates on the Somali media produced by diaspora journalists and
showcases the pressures that drive their selection processes and editing methods, processes and methods that transnationalise and re-create the conflict amongst Somali communities (Osman 2017). The findings analysed in this article are derived from interviews that have been conducted with diaspora-based Somali journalists and producers. The article illuminates the driving forces behind the darker roles that diasporic media can play in the continuation of an ongoing conflict.

Keywords:

Journalism, Somali diaspora, conflict,

Mogadishu University,

ISOS,

Jan

January 29, 2025

China in the Horn of Africa: Neo-Colonialism or Strategic Manoeuvrers in the Era of Great Power Rivalry?

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With the end of the unipolar world, China’s rise has seen it challenge Washington’s hegemony in not only Asia-Pacific, but also Latin America and Africa. Nowhere stronger in Africa is this Great Power Rivalry than in the Horn of Africa. With energy interests, shipping lanes, business ventures and security concerns, the Horn of Africa has become polarised on the global stage because of China’s economic penetration. This penetration has called to question whether Beijing is engaged in neocolonialism in the region or making partnerships and strategic manoeuvres to outpace Washington in winning favour with Horn of African states. It appears that Beijing has outmanoeuvred Washington as states in the Horn of Africa respond to partnership initiatives by China
rather than establishing a culture of aid dependency like the US has created. This model of engaging with developing states has won favour in the Horn of Africa.

Keywords:

Horn of Africa, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, China,
USA, Power Rivalry, Neo-colonialism,

Mogadishu University,

ISOS,

Jan

January 28, 2025

Turkish Model in Somalia: Civilian Power Approach in State Building Process

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The international community’s intervention in fragile or failed states mostly is welcomed. But on the other hand, the external intervention revolves around the interest, ideas, strategies and the policies of the intervener. This study explores Turkish model in Somalia`s state building and argues that the engagement in civilian power with humanitarian and development assistance, is more effective than coercive military intervention. Turkey’s civilian power approach has a positive impact on Somali state building process, such as peace building and political process, enhancing the capacity of state institutions and socioeconomic development of the country.

Keywords:

State building, Civilian power, development, Somalia, Turkey,

Mogadishu University,

ISOS,

Jan

January 28, 2025

Toosinta iyo Casriyaynta Haybta Shakhsiga Soomaaliyeed

Mucda Qoraalka

Si loola jaanqaado dunida maanta horumartay waxaa loo baahan yahay in qofka Soomaaliyeedi uu lahaado waxyaabo lagu aqoonsado, oo afafka shisheeye lagu yiraahdo “ID”, annaguna qoraalkan aan u adeegsannay ereyga “hayb”, iyadoo la raacayo hab midaysan, oo casriyaysan, lana ilaalinayo nidaamka diinta iyo dhaqanka Soomaaliyeedba. Haddaba waxaan halkan ku qaadaadhigaynaa haybta qofka Soomaaliyeed oo u baahan in la turxaanbixiyo waxyaabaha lagu aqoonsado, sida: magaciisa gaarka ah, ‘magacaqoys’-kiisa, taariikhda dhalashadiisa iyo degaanka uu ku dhashay.

Mogadishu University,

ISOS,

Jan

January 28, 2025

The State and its Fragments: Debates on Kinship and the State in Somalia

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This article has two primary objectives:

a) to introduce the debate about kinship systems and socio-political identity and organization in Somalia. I do this by reviewing an exchange at a British tribunal between two prominent academics in Somali studies: Abdi I. Samatar and I. M. Lewis;

b) to reflect on what is at stake in this debate by pointing at some of the potential consequences of the current U.N.-led state-building project in Somalia, which has embraced one side of this debate.

Keywords:

Somalia, kinship system, Somali political identity, clanism, state-building, genealogy, colonialism, and anthropology,

Mogadishu University,

ISOS,

Jan

January 28, 2025

Somali Region in Ethiopia: Historical Developments during the Period 1884-1995

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The history of Somali Region is scattered in the vast history of Somalia and Ethiopia. But this article explicitly examines the historical developments of the region from the colonial period to the recent past around 1995, and how the region gained the diverging ethnic and national identities, Somali and Ethiopian at the same time. The paper also aims at presenting the historical developments of Somali Region in short, and traditional narrative perspective.

Key words:

Somali Region, Ogaden, Hawd, Somalia, Ethiopia, British Colonies,

Mogadishu University,

ISOS,

Jan

January 28, 2025

“Of Warlords and Wordsmiths”: Journeying the Somali Civil War Through Selected Poetry

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Since mid-1980s, Somalia has experienced a long period of instability and chaos characterized by a brutal civil war. This paper focuses on some literary representations of the Somali civil war, in selected Somali poets, which shed light on Somalis’ experiences and struggles in the civil war era. These poems reflect on how contemporary Somali poets have attempted to better understand and counter the effects of war, and delve into the intricate and complex nature of the civil war including its effects on Somalis such as loss of relatives, exile and destruction. These works do not restrict the war to images of bloodshed but also provide images of Somalis who strive to confront the violence and look forward to a peaceful Somalia. As they historicize the war, these poems achieve a
cathartic effect, by which writers and readers cleanse themselves from distress, pain and loss of hope.

Keywords:

Somali Poetry, Civil War, Peace, Catharsis, Warlords, Wordsmith,

Mogadishu University,

ISOS,

Jan

January 28, 2025

Darajiyo Xil Yaa Mudan?

Tixdan

Darajiyo Xil Yaa Mudan?

Tixdan waxaa curiyay Cabdi Yuusuf Xasan, oo ku magac dheer “Cabdi Dhuux”, Sannadkii 1997.
Tixdan waxay tilmaamaysaa hoggaanka ku habboon ummad ka soo kabanaysa colaado sokeeye; ha noqoto sifooyinka qofka hoggaamiyaha noqonaya looga baahan yahay ama waajibaadka iyo hawlaha hor yaal.
Abwaanku si farshaxannimo leh ayuu u taxay hawlaha hor yaalla cidda rabta inay daadihiso dabaadiga ka soo haray colaado sokeeye, oo ‘dulli iyo dhib’ ka saari kara. Sidaas darteedna, mudan darajo iyo xil.
Tixdani waa 60 meeris.oo jiifto ah, waxay ahayd hees ka mid riwaaad la oran jiray “darajiyo xil yaa mudan” oo Muqdisho lagu dhigay. Heestani waxay caan baxday sannadkii 2000, xilligii uu socday ‘Shirwaynaha Nabadaynta Soomaaliya’, magaalada Carta, Jabuuti.

Mogadishu University

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