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International Journal of Peace and Development Studies
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ISSN (Print) 2141-6621
Published by Academic Journals

[33 journals]

Internationalization of Post-1991 political reform-induced ethnic
conflicts, cross-border contraband trade and human trafficking in eastern
Ethiopia
- Abstract: The political changes in Ethiopia after 1991 created a context for the dynamics of ethnic conflicts, changes in local contraband trade to cross-border trade, and women trafficking, affecting social norms and leading to intersectional impacts on women and girls in eastern Ethiopia. Previous studies have primarily focused on dimensions of ethnic conflicts within a specific geographical locatio...
  PubDate: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +010
The security-development nexus in Ethiopia since 1991: The case of eastern
Wallagga zone
- Abstract: In Ethiopia, security and development are often in conflict with each other, as certain development policies may harm human security and vice versa. This article aims to examine the security and development nexus in Eastern Wallagga Zone, an area that has faced various challenges related to conflict, displacement, and lack of basic infrastructures. Qualitative research design is used. Key pe...
  PubDate: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +010
The substantial potentials for establishment of biosphere reserve in the
Afar Region, Ethiopia
- Abstract: The Afar region is endowed with rich and diverse natural and cultural resources that have outstanding universal values from the perspective of culture and biodiversity conservation and it plays significant role in maintaining the arid and semi-arid part of the country. Moreover, there are considerable ecological and socio-economic opportunities in the region to enhance sustainable developmen...
  PubDate: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +010
The quest of democratic governance for sustainable peace in Ethiopia: the
case of Oromo Protest of 2014-2018
- Abstract: This article examines the inexorableness of democratic governance in multinational states for sustainable peace by considering the essential questions of the Oromo Protests in Ethiopia from 2014 to 2018. Ethiopia adopted the policy of a democratic developmental state in post-2000, which aimed to realize development initially and then democracy. However, the serious mass struggle was prompted...
  PubDate: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +010
The national peace building policy of Somaliland: Undoing what has
worked'
- Abstract: Part of the foundation of Somalilands stability over the last three decades has been its localized customary, clan-based peacebuilding mechanism. This may now be at risk. The ongoing institutionalization of Somalilands peacebuilding structures through the National Peacebuilding Policy (NPP) reflects many features of a liberal peacebuilding milieu and legitimizes state-building models shaped ...
  PubDate: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +010
Land conflict dynamics in Africa: A critical review on farmer-pastoralist
conflict perspectives
- Abstract: This paper examines the theoretical bases underlying the causes of land conflicts. It involves a critical analysis of various contentions surrounding land nexus violent conflicts with particular attention to farmer-pastoralist conflicts. The drive for this examination is more on a comparison of causes between such conflicts in varying contexts of African. The major aim is to broaden the unde...
  PubDate: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +010
The impact of humanitarian aid on post conflict development in Borno State
- Abstract: The protracted Boko Haram insurgency continue to ravage the Northeast Nigeria with 1.8 million people displaced and 7.1 million in dire need of humanitarian aid. The conflict also caused a great havoc on the giant stride towards development of these states which Borno state being the worst affected where an estimated 751.78 billion naira (6.898 billion dollar) worth asset were destroyed. The...
  PubDate: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +010
Sexual violence against women during the Rwandan genocide: A narrative
review
- Abstract: The Rwandan genocide was characterized, in addition to brutal killings, by equally brutal acts of sexual torture, mutilation, and enslavement as weapons against Tutsi women and girls on a mass scale. Existing scholarship on sexual violence has enhanced a general increased understanding of the contexts and challenges confronting survivors. Though the raping of women in combat and occupation z...
  PubDate: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +010
African continental free trade area (AfCFTA) trade vs. security dilemma:
From borders’ perspective
- Abstract: Africa embarked on an ambitious and promising free trade area agreement. If applied fully, it can inject a magical potion into the lives of the African economies which currently seem doomed to economic ICU. The agreement is expected to induce intra-continental trade, industrialization, integration all mainly because of free movement of people and goods. Meaning, lowering border controls and ...
  PubDate: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +010
Keys to sustainable and enduring societal peace in intractable conflicts:
A theoretical and empirical justification in apartheid South African peace
process
- Abstract: The perpetual search for solutions to societal conflicts, particularly those tagged intractable, that is, irresolvable, took a dramatic turn when South Africa, one of such age-long conflicts, bowed to mediation after about 48 years of fierce existence. Until now, no rigorously deep insight that is capable of accurately and adequately accounting for the dialectics of history that brought apar...
  PubDate: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +010