Georg-Sebastian Holzer

Georg-Sebastian Holzer is a research assistant at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. He focuses on conflict management with a regional specialisation on the Horn of Africa

Somalia: ends and beginnings

Much of the flurry of international media reporting on Somalia remains fixated on piracy-related stories. A previous article in openDemocracy argued that the root of the piracy problem lay in

By Georg-Sebastian Holzer

/ 18 Dec 2008

Somalia: piracy and politics

Ever bolder pirate attacks have - out of nowhere, it has seemed - put Somalia on the frontpages and screens of international media. This world attention has a bitter aftertaste,

By Georg-Sebastian Holzer

/ 24 Nov 2008