Daniel Maxwell - Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011-12

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Many people contributed to this book. We are eternally grateful to the whole team that helped us in our research, particularly the field research team, including Guhad Adan, Khalif Abdirahman, Mark Bradbury, Fouzzia Musse, Khadra Elmi, and Desiree Bartosiak. Guhad and Khalif deserve special mention as they contributed to the findings in many ways, from finding the right people to talk to, conducting the majority of interviews with Somalis, and adding their insights throughout the study process. At Tufts, a dedicated team of research assistants led by Janet Kim, Merry Fitzpatrick, and Heather Stobaugh helped us plow through some 500 documents that predicted, assessed, or, in one way or another, reported on the famine of 2011. The research was a collaborative effort of the Feinstein International Center at Tufts and the Rift Valley Instituteparticularly its field office in Nairobi, and we are grateful to RVI for their support in the study and its dissemination. We are grateful to the publishing staff at Hurst Publishers, and the detailed feedback on the manuscript from two anonymous reviewers.

The research on which this book is based was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and by the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the US Agency for International Development. We are very grateful for their financial support and for their support in raising some of the conclusions found here in policy-making circles worldwide. At Tufts, we would like to acknowledge Elizabeth Gelzinis, Rosa Pendenza, and the entire Feinstein International Center team for their support of this study. We would also like to thank the Rift Valley Institute team, Save the ChildrenEthiopia for their support of field work in Ethiopia, Abdi Aynte and the team at the Heritage Institute of Policy Studies in Mogadishu, and James Oduor and the National Disaster Management Authority for their (p.viii) support of the work in Kenya. For her endless assistance in editing, we would like to thank Joyce Maxwell.

Several individuals were extremely helpful in making connections to specific groups. In particular, we would like to thank Ramadan Assi of the International Medical Corp office in Ankara for helping to introduce us to the head offices of many Turkish agencies, and for his understanding of Turkish and Middle Eastern humanitarian actors more broadly. We would also like to thank Osman Consulting and the UK Muslim Charities Forum for their feedback on the non-Western and Islamic humanitarian actors.

We have benefited enormously from discussions with a number of individuals in the humanitarian community in Nairobi. Due to the constraints of the human subjects rules of research, and our assurances of the confidentiality of the interviews we conducted, we cannot name them here, but they know who they are, and we are grateful for their candor and bravery in the context of a politically fraught humanitarian emergency and response. Any research is of course dependent on the time and patience of the respondents interviewed. We would like to thank many people in the humanitarian communityand hundreds of respondents in Somalia, as well as Ethiopia and Kenya, and other locations too numerous to mention.

Lastly, we would like to thank our immediate familiesJoyce, Patrick, and Emma Clare Maxwell; and Kate Wood, Sami Majid-Wood, and Els Majidfor their support for (and tolerance of !) this study, which inevitably took up much more time and required a lot more travel than expectedand hence absence from home. We are grateful to everyone.

Dan Maxwell, Nisar Majid