Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia
The study seeks to explore the impact of leadership personalities of previous Somali political leaders on social integration. As Somalia now transit into post conflict reconstruction, there is the need to explore how previous flaws in leadership personalities resulted into social disintegration of t...
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| author | Hussein, Abdisamad Hassan Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah Ajis, Mohd Na'eim |
| author_facet | Hussein, Abdisamad Hassan Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah Ajis, Mohd Na'eim |
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| description | The study seeks to explore the impact of leadership personalities of previous Somali political leaders on social integration. As Somalia now transit into post conflict reconstruction, there is the need to explore how previous flaws in leadership personalities resulted into social disintegration of the Somali society. To achieve this objective, qualitative interviews were held with 13 respondents across Somali elite in Mogadishu. Using the Big Five personality framework, the results revealed that previous Somali leadership personalities were deeply flawed due to colonial legacy and influence of clannism. In addition, fear of losing and retaining power at all cost instituted clannism as a means on obtaining and retaining political power, thereby compromising unity and social integration. The result also depicted that a significant number of Somali leaders were generally low in conscientiousness as a necessary leadership quality within the Big Five framework. The study maintains that the ongoing post-conflict reconstruction is unlikely to succeed unless leadership personality adapts properly to the prevailing situation of social integration. Moreover, the study recommends that leadership in Somalia should prioritize the restoration of social trust so that Somalia’s reconstruction process can succeed |
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| spelling | uum-314722024-11-12T09:26:24Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31472/ Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia Hussein, Abdisamad Hassan Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah Ajis, Mohd Na'eim JA Political science (General) The study seeks to explore the impact of leadership personalities of previous Somali political leaders on social integration. As Somalia now transit into post conflict reconstruction, there is the need to explore how previous flaws in leadership personalities resulted into social disintegration of the Somali society. To achieve this objective, qualitative interviews were held with 13 respondents across Somali elite in Mogadishu. Using the Big Five personality framework, the results revealed that previous Somali leadership personalities were deeply flawed due to colonial legacy and influence of clannism. In addition, fear of losing and retaining power at all cost instituted clannism as a means on obtaining and retaining political power, thereby compromising unity and social integration. The result also depicted that a significant number of Somali leaders were generally low in conscientiousness as a necessary leadership quality within the Big Five framework. The study maintains that the ongoing post-conflict reconstruction is unlikely to succeed unless leadership personality adapts properly to the prevailing situation of social integration. Moreover, the study recommends that leadership in Somalia should prioritize the restoration of social trust so that Somalia’s reconstruction process can succeed Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31472/1/ARJASS%2008%2003%202019%2001-09.pdf Hussein, Abdisamad Hassan and Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah and Ajis, Mohd Na'eim (2019) Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia. Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, 8 (3). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2456-4761 https://journalarjass.com/index.php/ARJASS/article/view/183 DOI:10.9734/ARJASS/2019/v8i330101 DOI:10.9734/ARJASS/2019/v8i330101 |
| spellingShingle | JA Political science (General) Hussein, Abdisamad Hassan Mohd. Zain, Zawiyah Ajis, Mohd Na'eim Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia |
| title | Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia |
| title_full | Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia |
| title_fullStr | Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia |
| title_short | Leadership Personality and Social Dis-integration in Somalia |
| title_sort | leadership personality and social dis integration in somalia |
| topic | JA Political science (General) |
| url | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31472/1/ARJASS%2008%2003%202019%2001-09.pdf |
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