GOVSEA – Governing Economic Hubs and Flows in Somali East Africa

Funded by the consultative research committee for development research (FFU) this research program aims at contributing to a better understanding of key economic and political processes that have shaped state formation in Somali East Africa, including Somaliland, Puntland, and parts of Ethiopia and Kenya with Somali speaking populations. Looking at how trade and transport is organized along three transnational corridors in the region, the project seeks to explain how the daily management of market centers, transport facilities and commodities contributes to state-building and -erosion in the area. The project runs from 2014-2017.