Center for Strategic Communication

ASP Adjunct Fellow Matt Freear: Somalia’s Future

Matt Freear, an adjunct fellow at the ASP, recently wrote on theHuffington Post blog about Somalia’s future.  He writes that Somalia is entering a new phase in its development, after tremendous progress. “The military gains made, resulting from the sacrifice of so...

Looking at the lessons since Black Hawk Down

This October sees the twentieth anniversary of events that came to be known as Black Hawk Down, in which eighteen US military personnel and hundreds of Somalis died. Over a thousand Somalis were injured, hundreds of them civilians, though estimates vary greatly. It so...

Securing Somalia’s future

Today’s Conference on Somalia in London was historic for two reasons. First, it was the best opportunity in the last few decades for Somali leaders to stand up, on a more or less equal footing, with key international partners and decide the future of their country....