Beyond Conflict in the Horn

• Part I: achieving peace, recovery and development. Part II: the problems of peace and the return of normalcy; repatriation of refugees; demobilization of combatants; rehabilitation of children, women and other victims of war; public welfare; future role of NGOs. Part III: potential regional economic collaboration; the Nile; oil; Red Sea ports trade networks; labour migration; pastoral people. Part IV: requirements for reconstruction and long-term development; towards sustainable agriculture and food security; debt and economic adjustment; restructuring the state.

Its success is based on the rather similar problems faced by states in the Horn of Africa, the high standard of research on which most of the essays are based, the realism and common sense of most of the writers and the skilled editing. -