Forging Jubaland: Community perspectives on federalism, governance and reconciliation

In 2012 Somalia began a process of federalisation as a mechanism for statebuilding and ultimately stabilisation. Previous political processes have elicited limited success and have frequently been critiqued as elite-driven and divorced from popular needs.

Starting in 2014, Saferworld and our partner agency SOSCENSA conducted a two-year research project to explore whether the current federal agenda is meeting or will meet the governance and reconciliation needs of the citizens, using the Federal Member State of Jubaland as a case study.

This research and its associated recommendations are an attempt to re-focus attention onto Somali citizens and elevate their governance and reconciliation needs within the current political and statebuilding processes.