Looking Back and Looking Forward: The Somali Region (Ogaden) in the 21st Century

The Institute for Horn of Africa Studies and Affairs (IHASA*) held its annual conference in Minneapolis from June 18th to 20th, 2010. The conference was designed to address “the crucial international crisis facing the Horn of Africa region” with much of the focus devoted to the Conflicts in the Somali Region (also called the Ogaden). Themed, “Looking Back and Looking Forward: The Somali Region (The Ogaden) in the 21st Century”, the first IHASA conference was co-hosted by the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota.

The well-attended and well-organized conference featured prominent scholars on the Horn of Africa including, among others, Dr. Bereket Hebte Selassie of Chapel Hill, Edmond Keller of UCLA, Dr. Ted Vestal from Oklahoma University, Mr. Faisal Roble an Independent Scholar, Jawar Siraj Mohammed, Independent Researcher, Dr. Asfaw Beyene, Dr. Samantha Hurst of UCSD and Dr. Ali Khalif Galaydh, the former Prime Minister of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government.

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