Mission & Values
The Somaliland Diplomat is a digitally native public diplomacy and research institution — a permanently maintained, professionally edited, openly accessible portal dedicated to advancing the international legitimacy of the Republic of Somaliland through the consolidation, curation and dissemination of the legal, democratic, security, economic and geopolitical case for its recognition.
We are a research institution, not a campaign. Every editorial decision is made in the service of analytical credibility.
Our platform is modelled on the research institutions that set the global standard and built for the same audience: the serious reader who is not yet persuaded.
Our ValuesAnalytical Rigour
Every empirical claim is sourced. Every argument is made in its strongest available form. We do not publish assertions that cannot be substantiated.
Editorial Independence
We do not take editorial instructions from the Government of Somaliland or any funder. Our editorial board operates under a published charter with full structural autonomy.
Intellectual Honesty
We engage counterarguments directly. We include critical and sceptical material in our library. We publish corrections openly and promptly.
Openness
Our research is freely accessible. Our funding sources, editorial policy, and governance structure are published in full. There is no paywall on the case for recognition.
Long-termism
We build for the serious reader who is not yet persuaded. Our standard is the research institution, not the campaign — Chatham House, Carnegie, Crisis Group, not advocacy briefs.
We are not a news aggregator, a social media presence, a lobbying operation, or a diaspora community portal. We are not funded by the Government of Somaliland and we do not accept funding from any government with a direct stake in the recognition question. We do not publish anonymous material.