UN infrastructure collapse funded the rise of a new warlord generation

Evidence

A few months after the evacuation, when southern Somalia was again slipping into chaos, the very foundations of the $160 million U.N. headquarters had disappeared. This represented a kind of literal ‘dust to dust’ as the international operations that had proudly heralded the ‘new world order’ were finally buried in Somalia. Meanwhile, a new generation of faction leaders and warlords was rising to prominence on money made as scrap merchants making fortunes selling such materials as they could recycle from the ruins. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 644

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Lewis’s recurring theme that foreign interventions and their material traces reshape the Somali political economy in unforeseen ways. — connects to: UN mission left a legacy of aid-funded warlordism and soldier abuses.; The UN abandoned clan elder empowerment in favor of warlord dealings.; Warlord extortion of aid modernized the old abbaan protector system — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 625 (+3 more)

Related

• UN mission left a legacy of aid-funded warlordism and soldier abuses. (similarity 0.90)
• The UN abandoned clan elder empowerment in favor of warlord dealings. (similarity 0.86)
• UN recruitment inadvertently financed the clan militias it was fighting (similarity 0.85)
• Warlord extortion of aid modernized the old abbaan protector system (similarity 0.80)
• The UN mission unintentionally armed the very militia it fought. (similarity 0.79)
• Foreign aid itself fueled conflict in southern Somalia (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Factional strife within the S.Y.L. weakened the new Somali government #corroborates (0.50) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 500