The War on Terror and the Terror of War: Somalia and the Horn of Africa

The central argument of this lecture is that the Cold War and more recently the War on Terror have induced wars that have destroyed countries, killed, maimed, and displaced vast numbers of innocent civilians in dif-ferent parts of the world such as Somalia. For the victims, the terror of war is the cause of their misfortune while the perpetrators of the War on Terror consider them as unavoidable casualties...
Abdi Samatar is Professor of geography and global studies at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on the relationship between democracy and development in the Third World in general and Africa in particular.