A Gap in the Somaliland Constitutional Process: Reform of the Guurti House The Guurti is an essential institution in the Somali traditional non-state governance structures. The Somali society, usually characterised as stateless in the advent of colonialism, manages...
The House of Elders: Where Modernity Meets Tradition The pre-colonial political systems of most African countries were constituted by absolute, centralized, unified governments similar to those of their counterparts in the kingdoms and empires of Europe. Unlike other...
Indigenous Forms and External Interventions in a Somali Context There have been numerous outside interventions in the Somali areas, many of them ill- timed, ill-thought through and poorly implemented. Over a period of more than twenty years, serial efforts have been...
Traditional Institutions in modern governance: the House of Elders Since 2002 all of Somaliland’s governing institutions have been subjected to public elections, with the exception of the Upper House of the parliament – the House of Elders (Guurti). The Somaliland’s...
