Dialoguing and negotiating with Al-Shabaab: the role of clan elders as insider-partial mediators

Dialogue, Negotiate, mediating, Al-Shabab, clan elders

The article explores the idea that, instead of relying on foreign third-party mediators to resolve Somalia’s protracted stalemate at the macrolevel, clan elders, as credible insider-partial mediators possessing locally sourced legitimacy and perceived integrity, have the capacity to help overcome the stalemate between Al-Shabaab and the FGS.