Puntland Estbalishment: The Vanguard of Somalia’s State-Building Process

Puntland, an autonomous state, was officially established following a constitutional conference in Garowe. This conference brought together Issims (traditional elders) and tribal chiefs, who agreed to create a self-declared government to operate until Somalia fully recovered from its ongoing Somali Civil War. In the wake of the Somali Civil War, which erupted in 1991, a …