Long walk to restoration: Lessons from Somalia's transition process

This situation report discusses the lessons learned from the process in Somalia and the imperatives for sustaining and replicating the achievements.

The third transitional arrangement in Somalia ended successfully in August 2012. Against a backdrop of the numerous challenges and failures of previous transitional endeavours, the ending of the transition – while not implying the return of peace to the country – has raised hopes about progress towards peace. This situation report discusses the lessons learned from the process including how it succeeded, and the imperatives for sustaining and replicating the achievements in many of Africa’s challenging cases of instability.

About the author:

Andrews Atta-Asamoah is a Senior Researcher in the Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division at the ISS in Pretoria. He is also a doctoral candidate at the Political Studies Department of the University of Cape Town, South Africa.