Piracy in Perspective: the Somalia Context
Abstract
Piracy, is recent years, has become synonymous with Somalia. However little attention is paid to the unique circumstances surrounding this phenomena, or the sociopolitical atmosphere in Somalia that allowed for such an enterprise to arise in the first place. Using information collected from government documents, news articles, journalistic reports, and scholarly texts, the sociopolitical climate of Somalia is examined in the context of piracy, providing a more comprehensive perspective on the situation off the Horn of Africa. A GIS spatial analysis was also conducted to evaluate the distribution of piracy incidences within the Somali coastline, and detect any preponderant trends in Somali piracy within the last ten years.
Session Name:
A Brief History of War
Start Date
10-4-2015 2:30 PM
End Date
10-4-2015 3:30 PM
Location
HSB 211
Piracy in Perspective: the Somalia Context
HSB 211
Piracy, is recent years, has become synonymous with Somalia. However little attention is paid to the unique circumstances surrounding this phenomena, or the sociopolitical atmosphere in Somalia that allowed for such an enterprise to arise in the first place. Using information collected from government documents, news articles, journalistic reports, and scholarly texts, the sociopolitical climate of Somalia is examined in the context of piracy, providing a more comprehensive perspective on the situation off the Horn of Africa. A GIS spatial analysis was also conducted to evaluate the distribution of piracy incidences within the Somali coastline, and detect any preponderant trends in Somali piracy within the last ten years.