“This paper provides a comprehensive examination of Somaliland’s unusual development and current standing as a self-declared sovereign nation. Unlike Somalia, a state devaststed by a perpetual twenty-year conflict, Somaliland boasts a growing civil society along with a relatively vibrant democracy and accountability to the Rule of Law.Since 1991, the region has become a pocket of security and stability, in absence of formal recognition, by creating government
and societal institutions that strongly suit the values and needs of its people.”
