Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, cilt.18, sa.4, ss.1346-1366, 2019 (TRDizin)
The conflict in Somalia is nearing three decades since the bloody civil war that has eventually transformed into awar on terrorism begun. Three generations continue to experience the devastating impacts of the conflict that brokeout in 1991. Despite the numerous peace efforts, there seems to be little success in overcoming the protractedconflict. Existing literature emphasize on the role of clan identity, poor governance and external factors as themain causes of the conflict but fall short of providing sustainable peacebuilding efforts. This article opines that inSomalia the bond between the government and the people has long been and efforts to revive the hopes and trustof the citizens on their government needs to be prioritised. It identifies several gaps in previous peace approachesthat isolated public participation and gave room for laxity in implementation of the peace accords as some of themain challenges to peace. The paper argues that more elaborate efforts need to be taken to revive the social contractat two levels. One, among the people themselves and secondly, between the people and the government. Therecommendation should be anchored on a new constitutional dispensation that will not only be bottom -up drivenbut also should address some of the deep-rooted grievances of key actors through a constitutional process.