Why Ethiopia’s Conflicts Keep Returning: The Question Ethiopia’s National Dialogue Cannot Avoid

As Ethiopia’s National Dialogue seeks to chart a path toward peace, it faces an immense task. The Dialogue aims to address some of the country’s most difficult political, historical, institutional, social, and peacebuilding questions. Yet its success may ultimately depend on confronting a more basic question: why do Ethiopia’s major conflicts keep returning? A problem relocated, not resolved One answer lies in a problem that has received too little attention. The challenge of nation-building was not resolved after 1991; it was relocated. As political authority came to be organised through ethnoregional states, regional governments became central arenas for managing recognition, […] The post Why Ethiopia’s Conflicts Keep Returning: The Question Ethiopia’s National Dialogue Cannot Avoid appeared first on African Arguments.