Academic Staff

Mercy Fekadu (PhD), Associate Professor

Mercy Fekadu (PhD), Associate Professor

Director, Institute for Peace and Security Studies

Bamlaku Tadesse (PhD), Associate Professor

Bamlaku Tadesse (PhD), Associate Professor

Regular PhD Programme Coordinator

Biography

Yonas Tariku (PhD), Assistant Professor

Yonas Tariku (PhD), Assistant Professor

Regular MA Programme Coordinator

Biography

 

Beza Dessalegn (PhD)

Beza Dessalegn (PhD)

Assistant Professor

Biography

Yohannes Tekalign Beza (PhD), Assistant Professor

Yohannes Tekalign Beza (PhD), Assistant Professor

Head of the Center for Peace and Security Studies

Biography

Fana Gebresenbet (PhD), Associate Professor

Fana Gebresenbet (PhD), Associate Professor

Sabbatical leave

Yonas Adaye Adeto

Yonas Adaye Adeto

Associate Professor

Biography

Elshaday Hagos

Elshaday Hagos

consultant

Mercy Fekadu, Associate Professor

Director, Institute for Peace and Security Studies

Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor and Interim Director, Institute for Peace and Security Studies, AAU, and Secretariat Member of the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa (Nov 2011–On-Going). Her research interests include; Borderland Governance, Boundary and Territorial conflict, Security Governance, Statehood, Conflict, Small Arms and Light Weapons, Disarmament, Regionalisms, Women, Peace, and Security.

Research grants won:

  • Principal Investigator (Oct 2020 to Oct 2021): Facebook-funded research project entitled Dangerous Speech, Social Media and Violence in Ethiopia;
  • Co-Investigator (April 2020 to March 2023): UKRI/ GCRF funded project entitled Dangerous Speech, Social Media and Violence in Ethiopia;
  • Principal Investigator(May to August 2020): Netherland Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD)  funded project entitled Probing the practice of Representation for informed Intervention in Parliaments (PRIP): Focus on the House of People’s Representatives of Ethiopia;
  • Principal Investigator (2018 to Dec 2019): GIZ/ African Union border programme funded Research project entitled Research on Boundary and Territorial Conflict Eastern and Greater Horn of Africa;Principal Investigator(2018-2019): Global Research Network on Parliaments and People funded research project entitled Bridging research and innovation for democratic governance and enhanced participation (BRIDGE 4 Participation);
  • Principal Investigator (2017-2019): ESRC – DfID funded research project entitled Shifting Inequality Dynamics in Ethiopia: From Research to Practice (SIDERA);

 

Recent publications:

  • Hodbod, J., Stevenson, E. G., Akall, G., Akuja, T., Angelei, I., Bedasso, E. A., … Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta& Kamski, B. (2019). Social-ecological change in the Omo-Turkana basin: A synthesis of current developments. Ambio, 1-17.
  • Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta;Gebresenbet, F., Tariku, Y., & Nettir, E. (2019). Fundamental Challenges in Academic–Government Partnership in Conflict Research in the Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia. IDSBulletin, 50(1).
  • Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta(2017) Small Arms And Conflict Among East African Pastoralists: The Karamoja (In)Security Complex. Africa, 87(4), Oct 2017.
  • Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta, Gebresenbet, F., and Kamski, B. (2019). Sugar industry in the Lower Omo: Exploring different scenarios of privatization. (Briefing Note #6). In Omo-Turkana Research Network Briefing Notes, edited by J. Hodbod & E.G.J. Stevenson. East Lansing, MI: OTuRN.
  • Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta.Digital Participation in Ethiopia: A presentation of a web based application (BRIDGE)for the House of People’s Representatives. (2019). Policy Brief. Bete-Semay Creative Media.

Fana Gebresenbet (PhD), Associate Professor

Sabbatical leave

Fana Gebresenbet (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor and teaches the MA and Ph.D. courses at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, AAU. He earned his Ph.D. in 2016 in the Joint Ph.D. programme that IPSS runs with Leipzig University. His dissertation was on "The Political Economy of Land Investments: Dispossession, Resistance and Territory-Making in Gambella, western Ethiopia." Fana's primary research interest is on themes related to the politics of development, political economy, pastoral development/conflict, and migration.

Research grants won:
Principal Investigator (2021-2023): a GCRF funded research project entitled Migration, Urbanization and Conflict (MUCA) in Africa;
Co-Investigator (January 2018-April 2019): ESRC funded project ‘Shifting In/Equality Dynamics in Ethiopia: From Research to Application’ (Addis Ababa University);
Researcher (2017): Governing Irregular Migration: Agency of Potential Migrants and Culture of Migration in Tigray and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (With funding from GIGA)