<story><title>Xeer</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cup</author><text>I must admit I was confused to see xeer being posted to HN. Its interesting to contemplate the unique history of Somalia and the Somali people and how it fits into the greater African jigsaw puzzle.&lt;p&gt;I think the article is slightly misinformed however, the Sharia legal and judicial instrument which was adopted by the Somali people after the growth of the Muslim faith in the region was another system of justice and social order that arrived well before attempted European colonisation.&lt;p&gt;On a tangent, interesting things are happening with the Somali federal government now with respect to the telecommunications industry. Not only does Somalia now have its own top down domain (.so) but fiber optic lines are slowly being rolled out in the capital.&lt;p&gt;I find it ironic to think that in Australia the government is singing praises for copper network lines (after repealing the NBN) yet war torn anarchic Somali is pushing in the other direction. Somalia and Africas future really does look interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elwell</author><text>&amp;gt; I must admit I was confused to see xeer being posted to HN&lt;p&gt;(from wikipedia) &amp;gt; It is an example of how customary law works within a stateless society&lt;p&gt;Anything that uses the word &amp;quot;stateless&amp;quot; is guaranteed to make it to the front page of HN, an immutable conglomeration of immutability fanatics.</text></comment>
<story><title>Xeer</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cup</author><text>I must admit I was confused to see xeer being posted to HN. Its interesting to contemplate the unique history of Somalia and the Somali people and how it fits into the greater African jigsaw puzzle.&lt;p&gt;I think the article is slightly misinformed however, the Sharia legal and judicial instrument which was adopted by the Somali people after the growth of the Muslim faith in the region was another system of justice and social order that arrived well before attempted European colonisation.&lt;p&gt;On a tangent, interesting things are happening with the Somali federal government now with respect to the telecommunications industry. Not only does Somalia now have its own top down domain (.so) but fiber optic lines are slowly being rolled out in the capital.&lt;p&gt;I find it ironic to think that in Australia the government is singing praises for copper network lines (after repealing the NBN) yet war torn anarchic Somali is pushing in the other direction. Somalia and Africas future really does look interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VLM</author><text>&amp;quot;I must admit I was confused to see xeer being posted to HN.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Social media &amp;#x2F; web blog &amp;#x2F; MMORPG code of conduct &amp;#x2F; Karma scheme &amp;#x2F; online digital currency &amp;#x2F; standards of behavior all belong here?&lt;p&gt;If, today, on eveonline, or any other mmorpg, enough people wanted to roll a system out for conflict resolution, well, here&amp;#x27;s a historical system thats known to work and be stable and well documented, or documented well enough anyway.  It might actually transplant successfully.&lt;p&gt;Much as most social media is essentially workforce automation for grade school girl playground scale interpersonal relations, there are obvious startup opportunities to provide distributed worldwide mediation services using proven stable and successful historical techniques with a thin patina of CRUD web app and mobile phone data harvesting app smeared over it.  Although this paragraph is hyper sarcastic its also serious, there are obvious startup opportunities for a proven stable and workable mediation system.  Other than having problems educating the participants, I see no particular reason it couldn&amp;#x27;t scale worldwide for mediation.  MaaS is Mediation as a Service?  I suppose the startup would base their support call center in .so for obvious reasons?  Its a very interesting idea and I&amp;#x27;m almost sorry to state it publicly because I&amp;#x27;d almost want to roll it out myself.</text></comment>