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Accommodate the country’s diverse ethnic groups
- The primary aim of Ethiopian federalism is to accommodate the country’s diverse ethnic groups. Before 1991, Ethiopia had a centralised unitary government that suppressed diversity. It restricted ethnic groups from using their languages in official settings and schools. Ethiopian federalism grants ethnic groups the right to self-determination.
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Nov 26, 2023 · Ethiopian federalism grants ethnic groups the right to self-determination. An ethnic group can form its own region or become an independent country. This approach has drawn both...
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- 2. Ethiopian Federalism as a Centralized Federation
- 3. Ethiopian Federalism as a Confederation
- Dr. Solomon Nigussie — Discussant
- Dr. Mulugeta Mengist
- Dr. Yonatan Fessha
- Dr. Adem Kassie Abebe
Ethiopian federalism has been considered ethnic federalism both in domestic scholarly and policy discussions, as well as internationally in comparative federalism studies. I argue that Ethiopian federalism is so much more than “ethnic federalism” and even more than federalism itself. Ethiopian federalism has four faces, which are unitary, federal, ...
This federation of convenience may give the impression and façade that Ethiopia has been transformed from “a prison house of nationalities” into “a freedom house of nationalities”—that ethnic groups now have the autonomy and freedom to decide on their own affairs in the territories they inhabit, i.e., practice self-rule, and participate in the gove...
If Ethiopian federalism is a federation of convenience from the viewpoint of the ethnic groups and a centralized one from that of the regional states, it is a confederation from the perspective of the citizens. This is because the Ethiopian Constitution generated two imagined political communities as sites of citizenship. The first includes the Nat...
Thank you Berihun for your clear presentation and succinct framing of the most important issues. By agreeing with you on most points, I will focus on the most important issues which I think should be discussed. One issue is, there are people who argue that the Ethiopian federation guarantees the rights of cultural and religious groups and that th...
On your idea of having a serious federation more than having a federation of convenience you raise the issue of self-determination. I do not have a problem with self-determination in general. But the right to secession renders the whole federation a federation of convenience. I would like to raise the practical problems which arise from having a se...
In your paper you attributed the centralization of power to the design of the Constitution. I am not sure the centralization comes from the constitutional design. If you look at the division of power in the Constitution, it gives explicit power to the federal government and gives residual power to the states. This is an indication that the federati...
What are the parameters by which one can say a federation is centralized or not?
Jan 3, 2019 · The system of ethnic federalism was troubled with internal inconsistencies because ethnic groups do not live only in a discrete “homeland” territory but are also dispersed across the...
Sep 4, 2009 · Executive Summary. The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), led by its chairman and prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has radically reformed Ethiopia’s political system.
Ethnic federalism as an institutional set-up privileges ethnicity as one marker of identity over many others (economic, citizenship, occupation, religion, class, or gender) and, in a sense, freezes this one marker of identity, or rather encourages people to identify in ethnic terms.
May 19, 2022 · Ethiopia is basically a prime example of what is widely known as ethnic federalism (ethno-federation), a model of federalism that is deliberately designed to respond to ethnic concerns.
Jan 12, 2022 · It is true that ethnic federalism in Ethiopia played a vital role in minority protection and allowed the ‘self and shared’ governance system in the country. Parallel to this, it has also generated local-based ethnic conflict and reignited armed based ethno-nationalist and separatist groups in the country.
