Somalia was "Hal" for 31 years of our history. All that's left is Italian Somaliland, a union forced on my people for all of 13 years. Why should I act like that's my true history? Centralism is a concept introduced to Somalis by the colonial powers and I will not respect it. We must return to our true history and dissociate ourselves from this fiction feed to us by Europeans.
I totally agree. Central Government was a failure and it will ALWAYS be a failure for Somalis.
The best thing we can hope for, is to create some sort of Association of Somali States, where each autonomous Somali state pursues it's own policies and has their own regional government. Perhaps we can share a currency, military, and other important things.
But the days of Mogadishu controlling the entire nation is over. Somalis won't stand for that.
i agree with you guys on here Federalism or just blatant centralism wont work both are concepts adopted from europeans!
What will work is Decentralized unitary state
http://english.dohainstitute.org/file/G ... 64b9b9964b
Decentralization as a model for governance begins as a broad concept that is flexible,
and gives nations a number of tools. It is distinct from the federalism model:75 G.
Shabbir Cheema and Dennis A. Rondinelli define decentralization as “transfer of
authority, responsibility and resources – through deconcentration, delegation or
devolution – from the centre to lower levels of administration.”76 While in a
decentralized unitary system sovereignty and the constitutional powers remain within
national state, the national government decentralizes administrative, political and fiscal
powers to different entities including regions. For example, in decentralized systems
there is a de-concentration of authority, which is delegated in order to respond to local
service needs. The model also gives the central government final control of regional and
local governments. Another option in creating a representative governance model, as
Dennis Rondinelli notes, is devolution. As the most “extreme form of decentralization”77
it allows the central government to establish “independent levels and units of
government.”78 It also provides local officials with the authority, responsibility and
resources in order to make decisions and implement them
the best thing was to make more states with less power. US has 51 states!
we already have the borders for it
one thing i disagree on is independent puntland somalia should always be united!
