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The National Civic Forum is an independent, non-partisan organization founded by a cohort of Somali scholars and professionals who met on September 20th – 24th, 2004 in Nairobi, Kenya. NCF’s mission is to generate and disseminate creative ideas that may assist the Somali people in the establishment of a democratic political order, durable peace, justice, rule of law and sustainable development.
Such a generation of creative ideas and their dissemination through various media and publications is particularly crucial during the Transitional Federal Government’s mandate at a time when not only national reconciliation, social reintegration and confidence-building should be a high priority but also the supremacy of the rule of law, respect for human rights and civil liberties, social justice, economic recovery, and accountability – among others – should be systemically affirmed and enforced in earnest, thus ending for ever the rule of one-man and the rule of the gun in the Somali Republic.
The ideas that NCF generates will become the basis for a new public platform, where any and all aspects of national problems will be objectively and dispassionately debated, with a view to searching common grounds of solving them. This could be realized by NCF’s persistent and positive engagement of the nascent Transitional Federal institutions, the Somali people, the civil society organizations, and the international community, ensuring that each one of them plays its specific role in the most effective and constructive way.
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