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- 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 has had three major benefits. First, it allows for language and cultural freedom. The country’s 80 ethnic groups fought long and hard to secure their rights to culture ...
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.
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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?
Nov 27, 2023 · Ethiopian federalism has had three major benefits. First, it allows for language and cultural freedom. The country’s 80 ethnic groups fought long and hard to secure their rights to culture, language and identity. More than 57 of Ethiopia’s 80 languages are used as mediums of instruction in schools.
federalism, far from being a creed or ideology, may have to be understood as a ‘normative term’ that refers to a political system designed to attain ‘both union and non-centralization at the same time. 1 In the process, the federal union and
In as much as ethnic federalism institutionalizes the self- rule and shared-rule of Ethiopia's territorial ethnic communities by guaranteeing their representation and participation in the governance process, it is a viable constitutive means to democracy.
Jan 12, 2022 · Federalism in Ethiopia must be the product of bargaining involving diverse interests and parties in the nation. However, the federal system and its constitution designed dominantly to address demands of ethno-nationalist forces and overlooked the interest and needs of ethno-nationalist forces.
