Dereje Feyissa, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Haggai Erlich, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Stig Jarle Hansen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway Minako Ishihara, Faculty of Humanities of Nanzan University, Japan Roland Marchal, National Center for Scientific Research, France Meron Zeleke, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany Simone Rettberg, University of Bayreuth, Germany Zakaria M. Sheekh, Human Rights activist and as a consultant for the UN and Western governments on Somali issues Zerihun Abebe, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway