REFORMING THE HEART OF SOMALIA'S SECURITY SECTOR

  • Mohameddeq Ali Abdi politics,security, democracy, and peacebuilding
Keywords: Security Sector, Security reform, Security reorganizing, Security arrangement, Security promote

Abstract

Original Research Paper

DOI: 10.37458/ssj.3.2.3

Somali security has gone through different stages and it has become a place where certain people use it to oppress their opponents. In this article, we are investigating the possibility to make reforming the heart of the Somalis Security sector.  This article presents an example that if used it is possible that something can be changed for the Somali security sector . 

The article argues Somali Security should get fully trust the society of Somalia, if the people of Somalia feel that the security belongs to them and the people believing that they are working in the interest of the nation but not the interest-specific person, once people realize that the Security are working to defeand and to protect their country as well their interest, it will be easier to make reform and implement the whole country

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Published
2023-01-06