Markus Virgil Hoehne, Author at African Arguments

Author: Markus Virgil Hoehne

Home›Author: Markus Virgil Hoehne

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).

Conflict Debating Ideas Horn of Africa Somalia Somaliland

By Markus Virgil Hoehne
June 12, 2023
1771
6

The Dynamics of Conflict over Lasanod: Ongoing Fighting, Administration Building, Failed Mediation and Forecast

The dynamics of conflict over Lasanod: reporting from the field

Read More
Horn of Africa Somalia Somalia

By Markus Virgil Hoehne
February 6, 2023
4020
23

Crisis in Lasanod: Border Disputes, Escalating Insecurity and the Future of Somaliland

Crisis in Lasanod: Escalating Insecurity and the Future of Somaliland

Read More
Politics Somaliland

By Markus Virgil Hoehne
May 18, 2021
3293
8

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, ...

Read More
Politics

By Markus Virgil Hoehne
December 17, 2009
2362
7

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 ...

Read More

Translate »