For nearly two decades Somali has been subject to a whirlwind of violence that, for the most part, neither local leaders nor the international community has been able to control. Certainly, the tangled web of internal causes, deeply rooted in history and the country’s socio-political structure, combined with the sometimes disastrous foreign interventions, have blocked the situation to a point that it is difficult to foresee any kind of exit route from the Somalian crisis in the short term, or how international institutions could manage to build and implement more appropriate strategies.