4.1 - Somalia

Question 1

Somalia

Answer 1

17.1 million ethnically homogenous
Previous military control with USSR support
1991 - Civil war and Somaliland independance declared
UN peacekeepers attempt to guarantee delivery of aid
US intervention and withdrawal Black Hawk Down
African Union and US intervention
Lots of human abuse

Question 2

What Impacts For People In Somalia?

Answer 2

Poor justice system
Violence and murder
Infrastructure and sanitation
Accessibility to weapons and guns
Al Shaba terrorist group
Journalist get shot all the time

Question 3

What Is Positive?

Answer 3

Social media is provoking change
Returning diaspora of epople setting up business

Question 4

How Do We Measure The Success Of Intervention

Answer 4

Intervention should lead to improvements in human rights - democracy/governance, economic
Is it difficult to measure and improvements may take a long time to show up

Question 5

Measures

Answer 5

Government structures - freedom of expression, corruption index, democracy, rule of law
Economic systems - GDP per capita, development of capitalist society
Social - life expecancy, education, gender equality
Infrastructure

Question 6

Migration

Answer 6

Could reflect unsuccessful intervention - more migration
Howerever could reflect poverty or natural hazards, Might mis out smuggling, trafficking, deaths. Doesn’t show the impact of aid in the host country. Data errors - poor records, porous boulder, traffickers, smugglers

Question 7

Measuring Democracy

Answer 7

Could look at equality, freedom,one-person-one vote
Could assume economic development results in democracy, Does economic grwoth always result in freedom and human rights?, Wealth, Justice

Question 8

Debateable Points

Answer 8

Does the internet spread ideas
Do you need a certain level of wealth to sustain a democracy?

Question 9

Debateable Points

Answer 9

Does the internet spread ideas
Do you need a certain level of wealth to sustain a democracy?