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Bibliography Notes
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40175204 - about Somaliland

- origins of this council come from the pre-colonial era, which was defined by statelessness in the thinly populated area

- governed by descent groups, who are led by elders - men

- clan members ostracized after independence - only to reappear in Somaliland

- conflict led to a national conference for elders - first official gathering

- first time clan elders met on national scale

- meeting set the elders' role in government in stone - creating a bicameral system

- house of elders = Guurti - considered an upper house, most important part of the state = peacekeeper / pacifier

- 1993 conference in Borama = important poltiical turning point

Sentence: It was at a national gathering of clan elders at the 1993 conference in Boorama that delegates established the Guurti as the peacemaker and upper house of the legislature.