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  • The National Dialogue: The Preferred Way to Perpetual Peace in Ethiopia

     This event is by invitations only The Institute for Peace and Security Studies has organized an Indaba Session on the theme ‘The National Dialogue: The Preferred Way to Perpetual Peace in Ethiopia’. Ethiopia is passing through a long, tumultuous decade. The roots of these tribulations holding the country back from realizing brighter today and better […]

  • POWER AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA

    RAS MEKONNEN HALL

    Many countries across the continent have made notable gains in the perpetual and Sisyphean struggle for well being. Still, the acute imperatives of deep and lasting transformations of the material and intellectual dimensions of the continent and its people continue to be seminal. This lecture will bring into focus the two concepts of power and […]

  • AU-Rwanda Embassy-IPSS Symposium | 28th Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

    Nelson Mandela Hall, African Union Commission

    Download: Concept Note (EN) | Agenda (EN) The African Union Commission (AUC) through the Political Affairs, Peace and Security Department , in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Rwanda in Ethiopia and Permanent Mission to the African Union, organized the 28th Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda at the AUC on […]

  • The Global 1960s: A View from Latin America

    Skylight Hotel

    Eric Zolov, PhD Stony Brook University - Eric Zolov is Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Stony Brook University. He received his BA from Colby College (1987), and MA in International Relations/Latin American Studies (1990) and PhD in History (1995) from the University of Chicago. The author of The Last Good Neighbor: […]

  • Reflections on tragedy and healing: The role of Indigenous wisdom in Ethiopia

    RAS MEKONNEN HALL

    Dr Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes - is a Senior Lecturer, multidisciplinary researcher and writer based at Curtin University’s Centre for Human Rights Education, Australia. Drawing from the history, philosophy and experiences of marginalised people and diverse communities, Yirga contributes critical insights for re imagining the future and addressing epistemic and racial injustices. He researches African experience […]

  • Somalia Elections: Implications to the Greater Horn

    *This is a closed session* FES and IPSS are re-establishing their monthly Breakfast Meeting Series on topics related to peace and security issues in the Horn of Africa. The first meeting in this series will take place on 7 July 2022. It will focus on the regional implications of the re-election of  Somalia’s President Hassan […]

  • The Hydro-politics of the GERD in the Global and National Political Crisis: Negotiations, Mediation and Rhetoric of Conflicts

    *By Invitation Only/Closed Session* The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been a center of regional political interaction in what is known as the Eastern Nile Basin. For a decade, the dam has shaped the hydro-politics of the Nile, particularly the tripartite political relation between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. Unprecedented negotiations unfolded inviting major global […]

  • Pre-Tana Multi Stakeholders Dialogue – Climate and Security in Africa: Focus on the Sahel

    Hybrid | Hyatt Regency Addis Ababa | Zoom

    Download: Concept Note (EN) | Concept Note (FR) | Agenda (EN) | Agenda (FR) Register: Here The 10th edition of the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa will take place in 2022  in Bahir Dar in hybrid format under the theme, “Managing Security Threats: Building Resilience for the Africa We Want”. In line with […]

  • African and European views of the new global order

    Bayerischer Hof, Yellow Parlour , Germany

    Global power has been in a process of re-balancing and with that shift challenges to the post-1989 order have been mounting. The war in Ukraine acts as a caesura, compelling Europe to confront the uncomfortable reality that the post-1989 order was both a function of Western power and its principles far from universal. By trying […]

  • Building bridges of understanding between Africa and Europe in the wake of the war in Ukraine

    Online

    To Register: The war in Ukraine has elicited diverse reactions in the geopolitical landscape and created tensions across the globe. African and European countries have taken diverging positions in their response to the war. Although most actors have vocalised concern and condemnation of the war on the occasion of the vote at the UN General […]

  • The Africa Continental Free Trade Area: Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Development, Peace and Security in the Horn

    Skylight Hotel

    To Register  -  Click Here The Life & Peace Institute (LPI) and the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) are pleased to invite you to a Forum launching the Horn of Africa Bulletin’s (HAB) edition on The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The articles in this edition explore the AfCFTA and its impact since the agreement’s […]

  • Prospects of China-Africa Cooperation: Youth Leaders Forum

    Skylight Hotel

    Download: Concept Note | Agenda To Register  -  Click Here China and Ethiopia, the two countries among the oldest civilizations of the world, started their diplomatic relations in the 1970s. This relation was modest in its early years, but it began to grow starting in the mid-1990s. Not only it grew, but for some it […]