by Lielit Teklay | Nov 14, 2026 | Insight
A book chapter by Beza Dessalegn entitled “Federalism, Insecurity, and the Pursuit of an Own Ethnic Region in Southern Ethiopia” in the book Ethiopia’s Insecurity Complex: Protest, Transition and War, published in 2025 examines the under researched direct relationship...
by Lielit Teklay | Oct 31, 2026 | Insight
The rise and dominance of the liberal peace thesis may have led many peace and security researchers to neglect the guardrails that Hans Morgenthau offered in his seminal book, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. Staying cognisant of those...
by Lielit Teklay | Oct 19, 2026 | Insight
The concept of governmentality refers to the practice through which behaviours of population are directed, constrained, and framed. The concept was originally appeared in the work of a popular sociologist, Michel Foucault’s “logics of power” to denote guiding the...
by Lielit Teklay | Oct 5, 2026 | Insight
Peacebuilding has always been a challenging endeavor in the Horn of Africa and broadly on the continent. Relapsing into conflict is a common denominator across multiple cases. The Pretoria Agreement, GoE and TPLF, is not holding– tensions are rising and war looks...
by Lielit Teklay | Sep 21, 2026 | Insight
Contemporary Africa is experiencing a rapid expansion of digital public services, intelligent infrastructure, and innovation hubs. While these developments promise greater connectivity and economic opportunity, they also raise pressing question of data sovereignty,...
by Lielit Teklay | Sep 5, 2026 | Insight
Introduction In Rethinking Security after the Cold War, Barry Buzan (1997) examines how the end of the Cold War transformed the concept of security. He argues that the emergence of new political, economic, societal and environmental challenges requires a broader...
