A new website www.sidd.org.uk has been launched by Somali Initiative for Dialogue and Democracy which works for 'the reconciliation and integration of Somali refugees' and the longer term aim of 'enabling skilled Somalis in the diaspora to return to Somalia and contribute to national reconstruction'.

Its introductory paragraph reads: ‘Despite all the pain that Somalia has passed through, we have to believe and work for the time when Somalis can hold their heads up high in the knowledge that we have found a way of accepting each other, acknowledging wrong-doing and putting the common good above sectional interests’.

The site contains information about its development from the reconciliation of two Somalis of different clans in the early 1990s, through courses in Dialogue Facilitation in London and participation in conferences in Caux, to experiences of mediating in Somalia itself and submissions to UN conferences on the future constitutional arrangements in Somalia.