The Roles of Customary Institutions in Adaptation and Coping to Climate Change and Variability among the Issa, Ittu and Afar Pastoralists of eastern Ethiopia

Tadesse, Bamlaku; Beyene, Fekadu; Kassa, Workneh; Wentzell, Richard

doi:10.1515/cass-2015-0025

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“…The findings of this study support the works of various scholars on the issue of federalism and ethnic conflict. The new state arrangement complicated ethnic relations and gave existing ethnic conflict new shapes and paradigm (Tadesse and Gelaw 2013); created competing ethnic groups for resource dominations (Abbink 2006); politicised ethnicity, reconfigured clan and ethnic relations, and rise of boundary dispute between states in the federation (Kefale 2013) and above all the federal model in the Ethiopian has localised ethnic conflict (Abbink 2006).…”

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“…Particularly, the drawing of boundaries along the ethnic line, which resulted in the intertwining of ethnicity, territory, and intra-federal boundaries (Clapham 1998) and led to the generation of violent conflicts among various ethnic groups and almost in all border areas of regional states (Kefale 2013). Consequently, the following landmark ethnic-based conflicts has occurred in the post-1991 Ethiopia: the Silt’e–Gurage conflict, the Wagagoda language conflict, the Sheko–Megengir conflict, the Anuak– Nuer conflict, the Berta–Gumuz conflict, and the Gedeo–Guji conflict, the Oromo–Amhara conflict, the Afar–Somali (Issa clan) conflict, and the Oromo–Somali conflict (International Crisis Group 2009; Mengistu 2015; Tadesse and Gelaw 2013).…”

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Is Federalism the Source of Ethnic Identity-Based Conflict in Ethiopia?

Bayu

2022

Insight on Africa

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Though statehood nature traced back to ancient times, modern Ethiopia came into being in the second half of the nineteenth century under the military expansion of King Menelik II. Since then subsequent political systems in the country have failed to recognise and accommodate the country’s ethnolinguistic diversity. However, in 1991 the new government constitutionally recognised and institutionally accommodated the country’s diversity. While solving old problems of ethnic inequality and injustice, ethnic federalism has created new problems of ethnic tensions and conflict across Ethiopia. The article aims at investigating how and why ethnic federalism ended up being a source of ethnic conflicts in Ethiopia and suggests the way out. The article employed a qualitative research design and methods of data analysis and interpretation. The finding of the study shows the notion and implementation of federalism has to be blamed, which left unclear administration boundary, overlooked cross-cutting variables, Majority versus minority and Titular versus Settler problem, politicised ethnicity by transformed cultural communities into political communities, produced mega ethnic syndrome within the Ethiopian society, for the country’s ethnic troubles and conflicts. Reforming the federal system and its constitutions is the way forwarded to reduce ethnic tensions and create an inclusive society in Ethiopia.

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