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Gedo turned out to be a land of suffering people due to war, destruction, hunger and disease. People who live in this region are known for their tolerance, kindness, cooperativeness, and they are not war-like in nature. However, why do wars occur in Gedo? Are these wars between satisfied and non-satisfied clans? Or are they caused by maltreatment and mistrust of leadership? To answer these questions, Gedo intellectuals and scholars living in Diaspora have launched a non-governmental, non-profit organization called United Gedo People’s Council. We are launching this organization for the reason that the Gedo Region has been socially and politically confused, and lacked comprehensible political direction. We are establishing it simply because politicians, intellectuals, traditional leaders, business people and religious educators have disappointed Gedo people. We are making the first move since our people have been exploited and ill treated by greedy and ruthless individuals. Organizations are formed for a reason, a purpose, and a cause. Our reason is to develop our talents and expertise and help to shape our destiny. Our purpose is to speak a loud and clear voice and create a collective force that can play a great role in our society. Our cause is to go back and check our past mistakes, so that we will never repeat the same mistakes in the future. Our goal is to heal wounds of mistrust and create a healthy and productive society. Our aim is how to restore the confidence of our people secure our borders and maintain a good relationship with our neighborhood provinces. Our objectives are how to produce a good leadership and a reliable panel of expertise. Our ambitions are how to take practical steps for the ideological, moral, intellectual, and economic development in agreement with the norms, values and principles of our society. Gedo Region has never been a place for one ethnic group and it is not today. It encompasses many groups including the immigrants, who have just arrived, those who have been here for generations and indigenous people. A group of greedy individuals has divided our communities into warfare factions and kinfolks. As result, these divisions have created a deep mistrust and hatred in the midst of Gedo people and among our neighborhood tribes. This mistrust has become bottomless and extensive. These individuals have betrayed the will of our people and exploited them. Because past behavior is a good example of the future performance, they are considered to be failed individuals and deserve not to be trusted or determined to our destiny. A message to Gedo Communities. A society is either sick or healthy depending on whether it is functioning normally or abnormally. It becomes a full-fledge functioning system when its socio-economic, political structure and belief systems all reinforce one another. Once normality and stability has been established, civil society can began. However, in the absence of above-mentioned principles, there can be no prosperity, no culture, and no society. To understand the forces that strengthen and divide societies and the forces that promote social stability, we should ask ourselves what the nature is ofthe human trust and how does it relate to the unity in the society? What is the relationship between the fundamental values and political structure in that society? What are the most effective instruments to reconcile conflicts in the society and smooth the process of social stability, cohesion and harmonization? For more than a decade,Gedo Region of Southern Somalia has been confronted a combination of armed conflicts, lack of social developments, diseases and poverty. One thing our people must understand is that fighting will never be a solution to any conflict. We must put down the weapons of war and pick up the promise of peace, and the strength of give-and-take should replace the greediness of mankind which today is so prevalent? Moreover, it is time for us to recognize the truth, reconcile with each other and we must bury individual selfish ambitions and uplift our common verbal communication to work for the common good. In addition, the most powerful connection we all share with each other is our need to survive and to preserve our culture, values, identity, integrity, and most important our unity. To minimize loses and maximize benefits, we must find a strategy to give us opportunity to survive and prosper in the Somali system. To gain self-confidence and to overcome all bad habits, we have to learn how to trust and co-operate with each other. Leadership positions are earned, accomplished, or at least requires some good efforts, and a good leader is the one who increases harmony and decreases conflicts between his people. If that is the case of the good leadership, we must trade our desires and votes with a well-defined leader who should be clear, insightful and capable in working with domestic, national and international affairs and wish to fulfill his promises of our future stability and prosperity. We believe that a better Gedo will grow from accepting, appreciating, and understanding one another. Our goal must be positive and must be capable of making Gedo a better place for the next generation, for truly, is that not what our struggle is about? Aren’t we merely trying to lay the foundations for a brighter future for our children? Finally, collectively we can heal our wounds, change the painful and difficult er that has been associated with the Gedo people, to do so we must take charge and be in control of our own future. Mission statement Our mission is to promote peace, justice, fairness and equality for all Gedo people and to create an atmosphere of stability, discussions and reconciliation. The United Gedo People’s Council shall make Gedo Region a knowledge-based society, build on its public intellectual and material resources, protect its cultural legacy and promote good leadership.
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