There are 3 duos of 2 that will be important to understand before the Somali civil war ends which most likely will not end during our lifetimes;
1. Conflict of Ego vs Conflict of Equity.
2. Gelinsoor & Barawe
3. Grazing vs Soil
I will remark on these 3 duos at a different point.
Everything they tell you about the Somali civil war is a lie. Everything they understand about the Somali civil war is a lie. Somalis themselves, including our parents born within this storyline, substantively misunderstand or are sadly misinformed about why their own country and culture is is so uniquely failed as a state relative to every other single nation-state on earth. I am talking even our post-colonial Somali scholars & academics. If they were not merely "sophists" for their own in-group/factional grievances within this storyline line were simply "regurgitating" what was being "observed" ala IM Lewis style without necessarily critiquing the observation. In fact, critical assessment or critical theory is not merely just "practically absent" but is altogether "non-existent" in Somali studies. Even what has been provided as "criticism is in itself just a function of informing that there are grievances (or more than one) within the observations or assumed observations. The observations are never a subject of criticism which brings even the grievances under crtical analysis.
The equator, sun, climate, aridity, animal husbandry, pastoralism, a coast, Black Africa, Islam, eastern culture, honor society, even Black skin with aquiline nose is the physical, cultural, sociological, spiritual, geographical, and economical testaments that the Somali people are truly a uniquely formed part of the human race who may (and in fact are) probably an outliar to the given normal human expectation of "nation-state business "
Those 3 duos are important as things that will inevitably be very important to the conclusion of Somalia'a civil war.
Disclaimer: Harti lands in former British Somaliland have been included in this dispensation since they led 2 wars to be implicated with their Darod kin in the lands Italy took. In 1920 they were unsuccessful, but in 2023 they were successful.