Markus Hoehne is a lecturer at the Institute of Anthropology at Leipzig University, Germany. His research focuses on identity and conflict in northern Somalia (Somaliland and Puntland), political Islam and transitional justice in the Somali inhabited territories in the Horn of Africa. His publications include Somalia zwischen Krieg und Frieden: Strategien der friedlichen Koniliktaustragung auf intemationaler und lokaler Ebene (2002), a volume co-edited with Dereje Feyissa, Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa (2010) and a volumed co-edited with Virginia Luling, Milk and Peace, Drought and War. Somali culture, society and politics (2010) and Between Somaliland and Puntland (2015).