From conflict to concord: regional cooperation in the Horn of Africa

Abstract

The specific objectives of the symposium were to reassess the persistent condition of interminable political strife, economic decay, hunger,starvation and human suffering in the sub-region with a view to articulating vision of renewal and reconstruction, and to find areas of common ground for mutually beneficial and harmonious arrangements for cooperation among countries of the sub-region. As a prelude to a definition of fruitful terms of cooperation among the political communities in the Horn of Africa, it was our hope that the symposium would ask whether the sovereign state can any longer serve as the sole setting for public policy and action in respect to the region's daunting difficulties.