Alternative secondary education pathways in Nyarugusu Camp

The voices of millions of internally displaced people (IDPs) are missing in Somalia’s peacebuilding process. This paper aims to evaluate the state of protracted displacement in Somalia and explore the role of IDPs in the country’s peacebuilding process. A critical review of key government policies and documents from the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations reveals that Somali IDPs are reduced to “beneficiaries” with no agency rather than active citizens who can contribute to their solutions. This paper, however, finds that engaging IDPs in peacebuilding would be valuable in finding the missing link between the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding nexus.