Tribes as Essential Partners in Achieving Sustainable Governance
Indigenous peoples have modeled sustainable development around the world. Incentivizing the innovation and instillation of wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources can come in the form of public funding, including renewable portfolio standards, feed in tariffs and green tag programs. This article analyzes ways in which tribal communities are helping to expand cooperative good governance.
Indigenous Peoples and International Law Issues
and leaders of their people, but their selection is almost invariably on a basis that Westerners would not identify as strictly democratic. There were plans to transform the Guurti into an upper legislative body in 1997, but it was not clear as of April 1998 whether these plans had been implemented. Nor have planned parliamentary elections been held. A central administration has been established to supervise and encourage autonomous regional and district authorities. What is contemplated is a highly decentralized government with a great deal of power vested in regional and district authorities. Moreover, some resurgence of civil society can be observed in the creation of directly representative civic organizations over the past several years. Somaliland appears to be on a path of cautious consensus building, with respect for local and regional autonomy. With the government accepting and incorporating most forms of traditional organization, clan autonomy will be largely recognized, as will the authority of local leaders. The powerful clans are independent and diffused loci of potential resistance to the state. They are also wholly legitimate in the eyes of the Somali people. This may be the Somali version of accountability.
Neurorehabilitation: A Disciplined Disciplining Discipline
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