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Clashes between tribes were almost continual, but an actual Civil War escalated to the capital in Mogadishu in 1990, causing the world press to flee and media attention given to the area. Certainly, from the 1980s on, the willingness of the Somalis to rebel may be explained by the general conditions of poverty in the area.
From 1950 to the early 80s the economy was fairly stable, but then began a downward spiral. Urban workers had no jobs, rural families had no markets, and discontent was becoming endemic. As domestic food production failed, Somalia was forced to rely on foreign aid and importation to subsist. Even with that influx, infant mortality and life expectancy remain flat, worse in some sectors of the country. This may be best expressed in using the overall paradigm of structural violence in the conflicts coming from clan rivalry and the competition for the bare essentials for society. When one combines this with the separation of the elite from the regular population, and the modernization and technical...
When this divergence became so egregious it included potable water and grain, the pent-up violence felt by the populace in clan rivalry, deprivation, and social inequity exploded. This, of course, resulted in Civil unrest, atrocities between tribes, the involvement of the United Nations, and even continues today (Kivimaki, 2001).
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Gurr, T. (1970). Why Men Rebel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Kivimaki, T. (2001, June). Explaining Violence in Somalia. Retrieved April 2011, from Conflict Transformation Service: http://www.conflicttransform.net/Somalia%20report.pdf
Walker, I., & Smith, H. (2001). Relative Deprivation: Specification, Development and Integration. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Works Cited
Galtung, J. (1969). Violence, Peace, and Peace Research. Journal of Peace Research, 6(3), 167-91.
Gurr, T. (1970). Why Men Rebel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Kivimaki, T. (2001, June). Explaining Violence in Somalia. Retrieved April 2011, from Conflict Transformation Service: http://www.conflicttransform.net/Somalia%20report.pdf
Walker, I., & Smith, H. (2001). Relative Deprivation: Specification, Development and Integration. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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