Evolving state building conversations and political settlement in Ethiopia

IF 1.1 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2021-07-04 DOI:10.1080/14678802.2021.1974698
M. Tadesse, Alagaw Ababu Kifle, Dade Desta
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the evolving state-building conversations in Ethiopia and the role of political settlement thereof in charting a pathway for durable peace and strong state. The paper argues that costly mistakes in state and nation building, the radicalisation of the Ethiopian Student Movement coupled with Marxism–Leninism and ethno-nationalism polarised and fragmented the state-building conversations of the country leading to civil war in the 1970s and 80s. This led to an exclusionary victor settlement in 1991 when the TPLF/EPRDF militarily defeated other political groupings and the Derg. Consequently, the post-settlement in the Ethiopian state has been exclusively forged by the winning coalition sidelining competing narratives about the Ethiopia state including its history and the place of various groups therein. This historically veracious, violent, and exclusionary state and peacebuilding conversation undermined the post-1991 political settlement and the transition towards a durable peace and state. The outbreak of war in Ethiopia in November 2020 (which is not the core focus of this paper) is deeply connected to this violent and exclusionary conversation on the nature and future direction of the Ethiopian state.
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埃塞俄比亚不断发展的国家建设对话和政治解决方案
本文考察了埃塞俄比亚不断发展的国家建设对话及其在绘制持久和平与强大国家之路中的政治解决作用。本文认为,在国家和民族建设中,代价高昂的错误,埃塞俄比亚学生运动的激进化,加上马克思列宁主义和种族民族主义,使该国的国家建设对话两极分化和分裂,导致了20世纪70年代和80年代的内战。这导致1991年TPLF/EPRDF在军事上击败其他政治团体和Derg时获得排他性的胜利。因此,埃塞俄比亚国家的后定居完全是由获胜的联盟打造的,它将关于埃塞俄比亚国家的竞争性叙述排除在外,包括其历史和其中各种群体的地位。这种历史上真实的、暴力的、排他性的国家和建设和平的对话破坏了1991年后的政治解决和向持久和平和国家的过渡。2020年11月埃塞俄比亚爆发的战争(这不是本文的核心焦点)与这场关于埃塞俄比亚国家性质和未来方向的暴力和排他性对话密切相关。
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