8. What Can Be Done

This book brings to fruition the research done during the CEA-ISCTE project ‘’Monitoring Conflicts in the Horn of Africa’’, reference PTDC/AFR/100460/20

Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland

The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa.

Shows how regional and international interventions, combined with piracy, have compounded pre-existing tensions in the Horn of Africa.