Dr Kirsti Samuels is an attorney with extensive experience of countries in conflict – in Somalia, Afghanistan, East Timor, Bolivia, Ecuador, Haiti and Iraq. She is a writer and policy analyst on statebuilding and peacebuilding, and has advised governments and development agencies.

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Accord Issue 21: Somalia

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