Mohamed Aden, a Somali from Minnesota, has transformed a patch of central Somalia into an enclave of peace with a police force, new businesses, schools and rules. Jeffery Gettleman, reporting the story in the New York Times, says Aden’s formula has been to build local government from the bottom up — which is exactly what I heard in Liberia. Go to the villages and then into the clans and work it from there.   It’s not about elections or a Western concept of democracy – its about creating good governance.

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