"Boycotting elections is handing the field to the ruling party for free; the political reality of Oromia demands determined participation, not abandonment of the field."-- Former OFC leader Desta ...
A co-founder and former deputy director of the East African Policy Research Institute (EAPRI), Birhanu has also held senior ...
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From binary politics to creative compromise - why Ethiopia needs political imagination to bypass gridlock
Each time I think about negotiation, my mind returns to a parable about camels that I read some time ago in one of William Ury's books, "Getting to Yes with Yourself: How to Get What You Truly Want." ...
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Editorial - From Promise to Precarity: Ethiopia's Foreign Policy Drift and the Imperative of Strategic Reversal
When Ethiopia's prime minister received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, it reflected global optimism that one of the Horn of Africa's pivotal states had chosen institutional peace over militarized ...
My recent appearance on Al Jazeera’s Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan triggered a storm in Ethiopia – and among the many non-Ethiopians who have made a habit of lecturing Ethiopians about Ethiopia. Some ...
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Politics of performance - Ethiopia's education crisis, PM Abiy's 'intellectual' puzzle
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's tenure reveals a political project that is not merely developmental but profoundly performative and epistemological. His emergence has done one thing remarkably noticed by ...
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