Piracy in Somalia: Violence and Development in the Horn of Africa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108739283)

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 Tewelde 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 endeavors, avoid possible reversals in the gains so far made against piracy, and identify the gains that need to be made against its root causes.

Author: Awet Tewelde Weldemichael
ISBN-10: 1108739288
ISBN-13: 9781108739283
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 7.60w x 0.50d