Piracy in Somalia
Subtitle: Violence and Development in the Horn of Africa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781108739283
Subjects: Piracy; Fishery management; Fishing; Somalia, history
Description: 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 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 endeavours, avoid possible reversals in the gains so far made against piracy, and identify the gains that need to be made against its root causes.