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Piracy in Somalia : violence and development in the Horn of Africa

Weldemichael, Awet Tewelde, author

Overview

Piracy in Somalia sheds light on an often misunderstood world, oversimplified and demonized in the media and largely decontextualized in scholarly and policy works. It examines the root causes of piracy in Somalia, its impact on coastal communities, local views about it, and the measures taken against it. Drawing on six years' worth of extensive fieldwork, Awet Weldemichael amplifies the voices of local communities who have suffered under the heavy weight of illegal fishing, piracy and counter-piracy and makes their struggles comprehensible on their own terms. He also exposes complex webs of crimes within crimes of double-dealing pirates, fraudulent negotiators, duplicitous intermediaries, and treacherous foreign illegal fishers and their local partners. In so doing, this book will help inform regional and global counter-piracy endeavours, avoid possible reversals in the gains so far made against piracy, and identify the gains that need to be made against its root causes.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Piracy Somalia. / Fishery management Somalia. / Fishing Corrupt practices Somalia.
• ISBN: 9781108496964, 1108496962, 9781108739283, 1108739288

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HV6433.786.S58 W45 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE