1st Edition

Making Mogadishu Safe Localisation, Policing and Sustainable Security

By Alice Hills Copyright 2018
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

This Whitehall Paper explores the ways in which Mogadishu’s inhabitants try to stay out of harm’s way, from security officials in the presidential compound of Villa Somalia to the city’s powerful district commissioners, from patrolling policemen to the women road-sweepers in the rubbish-filled alleyways of the Waberi district. Its central proposition is that security is best understood as a... Read more

Introduction

I. Making Mogadishu Safer

II. Policing Mogadishu

III. Managing Neighbourhood Security

IV. ICT for Community Security

V. Hargeisa’s Modest Experiment

Biography

Alice Hills is professor of conflict studies at Durham University, where she specialises in police development, post-conflict policing and sub-state security. Before joining Durham she was professor of conflict and security at the University of Leeds. Prior to that she taught defence studies at the UK's Joint Services Command and Staff College where she specialised in urban operations and police-military relations.

She has published widely on police development and on urban operations such as counter-insurgency and war fighting. Her publications include Policing Africa: Internal security and the limits of liberalization (2000); Future War in Cities: Rethinking a Liberal Dilemma (2004); Policing Post-Conflict Cities (2009) as well as numerous articles in journals including International Affairs, the British Journal of Criminology, the RUSI Journal and Stability.