This article is part of the Analytical Reporting to Improve the Federation (ARIF) project Changes to the ethnic federal system…
Ethiopia’s ethnofederal system was designed to counter coercive homogenization, but, as in the former Yugoslavia, it left minorities tragically exposed…
Neither top-down administrative restructuring nor identity-based autonomy demands are likely to bring peace, democracy, and development to a forgotten corner…
Discriminatory and exclusionary policies continue to disenfranchise ethnic groups in the state’s periphery.
Now at the helm of national power, Oromo elites need to behave like representatives of a majority group.
Efforts to resolve the dispute, including the 2014 agreement, have failed, and so new approaches need to be employed.
The continued downplaying of Oromo concerns will only breed more violence.
An enduring political solution to the Amhara-Tigray land dispute does not exist in the system that created it
For the dialogue to be fruitful, TPLF and other banned groups should be included.