Particularly striking was Somaliland's success with low-cost, local clan-based peace initiatives in contrast to the high-profile, internationally sponsored and highly unsuccessful conferences which came to dominate what was optimistically called the 'peace process' in southern Somalia. Such high-profile 'peace conferences' were destined to become a major local industry in southern Somali politics for over a decade. As the Kenyan President Moi, who played an important role here, was to put it, 'peace conferences became milch camels for the factions to milk'.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 622