CENTER FOR SOMALI STUDIES

The Center for Somali Studies (CSS) at Globe Research and Publishing is a research institution aimed at fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration among international professionals and academic experts in order to collect existing information and offer updated analysis on Somalia and its political, economic, military, cultural and social performance.
Somalia has been long neglected by the international community because of civil war and government dissolution. Updated available information is often incomplete and informal, its sources consisting of ad hoc surveys - conducted by NGOs, humanitarian organizations and researchers - and testimonies of local governmental and non-governmental professionals, journalists, migrants and individuals having experienced the country during the last decades.
The priority mission of the CSS consists in providing researchers, entrepreneurs, government officials and the public at large with high quality information resources for a clear and unambiguous understanding of the country’s changing fortunes, with particular reference to the causes and perspectives of the current enduring crisis.
Based on research outcomes, and building on the historical relationship between
Italy and Somalia, CSS aims at identifying areas of common interest for possible cooperation for social-economic development of the country in the future.

Mission:
• To organize meetings, seminars and international conferences in Italy and abroad
• To provide a country profile with up-dated information for researchers, entrepreneurs, government officials and the public at large
• To collect existing official statistical data in a comprehensive electronic data-base for free dissemination on the CSS website
• To organize a comprehensive electronic library, including free documents available on the web and bibliographic references
• To publish country monographs and articles on Somalia’s socio-economic, political and military performance and its future perspectives.