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Author: Markus Virgil Hoehne

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Markus Virgil Hoehne

Markus Virgil Hoehne is a lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. He received his PhD from the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and worked for ten years at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale). He researches Somali affairs and anthropology of conflict; his most recent project focuses on forensic anthropology in cultural context, based on research in Somaliland and Peru. He published Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Visions (Rift Valley Institute, 2015) and is co-editor of Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa (James Currey, 2010), The State and the Paradox of Customary Law in Africa (Routledge, 2018) and Dynamics of Identification and Conflict: Anthropological Encounters (Berghahn, 2023).

  • ConflictDebating IdeasHorn of AfricaSomaliaSomaliland
    By Markus Virgil Hoehne
    June 12, 2023
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    The Dynamics of Conflict over Lasanod: Ongoing Fighting, Administration Building, Failed Mediation and Forecast

    The dynamics of conflict over Lasanod: reporting from the field
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  • Horn of AfricaSomaliaSomalia
    By Markus Virgil Hoehne
    February 6, 2023
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    Crisis in Lasanod: Border Disputes, Escalating Insecurity and the Future of Somaliland

    Crisis in Lasanod: Escalating Insecurity and the Future of Somaliland
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  • People celebrating Somaliland's Independence Day on the streets of the capital Hargeysa in 2016. Credit: Clay Gilliland.
    PoliticsSomaliland
    By Markus Virgil Hoehne
    May 18, 2021
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    Somaliland at 30: Still unrecognised, but alive and well

    30 years after declaring independence, Somaliland is still at the margins of the international system despite its considerable successes. 30 years ago, on 18 May 1991, ...
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  • Politics
    By Markus Virgil Hoehne
    December 17, 2009
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    Counter-terrorism in Somalia, or: how external interferences helped to produce militant Islamism

    Article by: Markus Virgil Hoehne, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Note: For more detailed analysis, download the full version of this essay on the Crisis ...
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