Academic Staff

Mercy Fekadu (PhD), Associate Professor

Mercy Fekadu (PhD), Associate Professor

Interim Director, Institute for Peace and Security Studies

Bamlaku Tadesse (PhD), Associate Professor

Bamlaku Tadesse (PhD), Associate Professor

Regular PhD Programme Coordinator

Yohannes Tekalign Beza (PhD), Assistant Professor

Yohannes Tekalign Beza (PhD), Assistant Professor

Joint MA and PhD Programmes Coordinator

Yonas Tariku (PhD), Assistant Professor

Yonas Tariku (PhD), Assistant Professor

Regular MA Programme Coordinator

Fana Gebresenbet (PhD), Associate Professor

Fana Gebresenbet (PhD), Associate Professor

Head of the Center for Peace and Security Studies

Prof. Habtamu Wondimu

Prof. Habtamu Wondimu

Professor

Yonas Adaye Adeto

Yonas Adaye Adeto

Associate Professor (on leave)

Beza Dessalegn (PhD)

Beza Dessalegn (PhD)

Assistant Professor

 

Mercy Fekadu, Associate Professor

Interim 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.

 

 

Bamlaku Tadesse, Ph.D.

Joint MA and PhD Programmes Coordinator

 

 

 

Bamlaku Tadesse (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University. He earned his Ph.D. Degree in 2016 from the Post Graduate Program Directorate, Haramaya University, Ethiopia. His dissertation was on “Analysis of Conflicts and Customary Institutions in Climate Change – Induced Conflicts among the Issa, Ittu and Afar in Eastern Ethiopia.” Bamlaku’s primary research interest is on themes related to the politics of governance vs development, regional dynamics and security, political economy, migration, resources based pastoral conflict, and climate change induced conflicts.

Research grants /projects secured

    • Gender and Climate Change Adaptations: The Case of Shinelle Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Community, Eastern Ethiopia, a research project sponsored by Haramaya University Research and Extension Office, 2015/16.
    • Gender and Milk Value Chain Development in Pastoralist Areas of Ethiopia: The Case of Dire Dawa City Administration and Jigjiga Zone of Somali Regional State, a research project sponsored by Haramaya University Research and Extension Office, 2015/16.
    • An Assessment of Gendered aspects of Migration to the Arab World, the case of Dire Dawa and Harar cities and its surrounding rural areas, a research project sponsored by Haramaya University Research and Extension Office, 2013/14.
    • Customary Institutions in Community Based Natural Resource Management, Somali Region of eastern Ethiopia, sponsored by Haramaya University Research and Extension Office, 2012/13.
    • An Assessment of Conflicts and Conflict dynamics in selected Woredas of east Hararghe zone, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia, sponsored by Haramaya University Research and Extension Office, 2012/13.
    • The Nature of Conflicts and Tensions among Farmers and Pastoralists in Eastern Ethiopia, a research report delivered to and sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) – African Peace building Network (APN), New York, USA, 2013.
    • The Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Pastoralist Women in Somali Region, Eastern Ethiopia, a research report delivered to and sponsored by the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2012.
    • Indigenous Institutions in Pastoral and Agro-pastoral Conflict Management Systems: The Case of the Afar, Issa and Ittu Oromo in Eastern Ethiopia, a research report delivered to and sponsored by Haramaya University Research and Extension Office, 2011/12.
    • Conflict Mapping in Eastern Ethiopia: The case of Chinaksen, Meiso and Shinlle areas, a research report delivered to and sponsored by Safer World, Nirobi, Kenya, 2011.

 

Publications

  • Gubaye Assaye Alamineh, Jeylan Wolyie, Yalew Endaweke, and Bamlaku Taddesse. 2023. The local communities’ perceptions on the social impact of tourism and its implication for sustainable development in Amhara regional state, Heliyon, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17088, published by Elsevier Ltd.
  • Amare Bantider , Bamlaku Tadesse , Adey Nigatu , Gete Zeleke , Taye Alemayehu , Mohsen Nagheeby , and Jaime Amezaga, 2023. Voices in Shaping Water Governance: Exploring Discourses in the Central Rift Valley, Ethiopia, Water- MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Bamlaku T. 2019. The Roles of the Council of Elders (Menguddo) in Gumma Customary Institution of Conflict Resolution among the Oromos of Eastern Ethiopia, Conflict Studies Quarterly, Issue 26, January 2019, pp.32-52 DOI:10.24193/csq.26.
  • Bamlaku T. 2018. An Assessment of the Existing Early Warning and Response Systems to Disasters in Arero District, Borena Zone of Oromia Regional State, East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. 2 No. 1 (49-72), The College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Haramaya University, Dire Dawa – Ethiopia.
  • Jeylan W., Nigusie A. and Bamlaku T., 2017. Integrating Reflective Problem- Solving and Mindfulness to Promote Organizational Adaptation toward Conflict Sensitivity, Journal of Transformative Education, Sage.
  • Bamlaku T., Fekadu B., Workneh K. and Richard W., 2015. The Dynamics of (Agro) Pastoral Conflicts in Eastern Ethiopia, Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol XI, No.1, The College of Social Sciences, Addis Ababa University.
  • Bamlaku T., Fekadu B., Richard W., and Workneh K. 2015.The Roles of Customary Institutions in Adaptation and Coping to Climate Change and Variability among the Issa, Ittu and Afar Pastoralists of eastern Ethiopia, Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems, 2015; 2: 146- 162, De Gruyter Open, Warso- Poland.
  • Bamlaku T., Fekadu B., Richard W., and Workneh K. 2014. Ethnicity, Identity and Conflicts among Pastoral Groups in Eastern Ethiopia, African Journal of Democracy and Governance (AJDG), 1(4), 2014, University of South Africa.
  • Bamlaku T. 2012. The Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Pastoralist Women in Somali Region, Eastern Ethiopia, Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • Bamlaku T., Fekadu B., and Yeneneh T., 2010a. The Role of Women in Indigenous Conflict Resolution among the Issa and Gurgura clans of Somali in Eastern Ethiopia, African Journal on Conflict Resolution. Vol. 10, No. 1, 2010, ISSN 1562 – 6997, Durban.

 

Yohannes Tekalign Beza, Ph.D.

Joint MA and PhD Programmes Coordinator

 

 

 

 

Yohannes Tekalign Beza (Ph.D.), is an Assistant Professor and Academic Program Coordinator for the Joint MA and PhD Programmes in Global Studies (with a special emphasis on peace and security in Africa). His research interest is on regional peace, security, and development with a special focus on the Horn of Africa.

Research grants won:

    • Received the In-Country/In-Region Scholarship offered by DAAD from 2015 to 2017.
    • Co-Researcher (2015/6): Updating and Contextualizing the Conflict Resource Pack, Pact/USAID funded research project, which was carried out by the IPSS.
    • Co-Researcher (August to October, 2012): Ethiopian National Conflict Mapping, GIZ funded project, which was carried out by the IPSS.

 

Publications

 

Yonas Tariku, Ph.D.

Regular MA Programme Coordinator

 

 

 

Yonas Tariku is a Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator at Institute for Peace and Security Studies, IPSS, AAU, and Part-time Trainer/Facilitator, Conflict Prevention and Management, International Peace Support Training Institute (PSTI), FDRE’s MOD, Peacekeeping Center.

Yonas earned his BA in Political Science and International Relations with Management Minor at AAU (2006), his first MA in International Peace Studies, Graduate School of International Relations, International University of Japan (2011), and second MA in Peace and Security Studies from IPSS (2012). Also, Yonas perceived his Post-Graduate Diploma and Higher Diploma (HDP) from Jimma University (2013) in Teachers Education.

Research grants won:

Currently working on Ethiopia’s Security Predicaments, Yonas’s primary research interest is on Ethiopia and the Horn with specific thematic issues relating to national and regional security, foreign policy, and interethnic/interreligious conflicts and conflict management/transformation. Besides, he has been working on China-Japan-Africa relations/cooperation (mainly focusing on issues of peace and security). Yonas is a two-time recipient of the MEXT Scholarship offered by the Government of Japan from 2009 to 2011 and 2016 to 2017.”

Recent publications:

    • Africa-Japan Relations in the Context of Global Peace and Security: The Need for a Well-Tailored Policy. IPSS Policy Brief, Volume 13, Issue 9, August 2019, (https://ipss-addis.org/resources/publications/africa-japan_relations_in_the_context_of_global_pe.php)
    • Fundamental Challenges in Academic–Government Partnership in Conflict Research in the Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia. (Co-authored with Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta, et al.), IDS Bulletin, Volume 50, Number. 1, June 2019, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/1968-2019.108.
    • Beyond Symbolism: China and the African Union in African Peace and Security, (Co-authored with Charles Ukeje) in Alden, C. et al. (ed.), China and Africa: Building Peace and Security Cooperation on the Continent. Palgrave Macmillan,2018 (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-52893-9_15).
    • Interreligious Conflict in Ethiopia: The Case of Jimma Zone. Ethiopian Journal of Religious Studies, (inaugural edition March 2017) (co-authored with Alemu Kassa Reta)ISBN:978-1-59-907180-0 (available at http://www.store.tsehaipublishers.com/product_info.php/ejrs/ethiopian-journal-of-religious-studies-v1-p-174#!tab2)

 

Fana Gebresenbet, Associate Professor

Head of the Center for Peace and Security Studies

 

 

 

 

Fana Gebresenbet (Ph.D.) is an Associate 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)

 

Recent publications (past five years):

  • Fana Gebresenbet. (2021, accepted). Sugar Industrialization and Distress Selling of Livestock among the Bodi Pastoralists in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley. Pastoralism: Research, Policy, Practice.
  • Laver, T., B. Terrefe and Fana Gebresenbet. 2021. Powering development: the political economy of electricity generation in the EPRDF’s Ethiopia. FutureDAMS Working Paper 014.
  • Gabbert, C.G., Fana Gebresenbet, J. Galaty, and G. Schelee (editors). (2021). Lands of the Future, the Future of the Lands: Anthropological Perspectives on Agro-Pastoralism, Investment and Land Use. Berghahn: New York.
  • Fana Gebresenbet. (2021). Political Objective of Villagisation in Ethiopia’s Lowlands: Muting Dispossessions through Land Acquisitions. In: Gabbert, C.G., J. Galaty, J., Fana Gebresenbet and G. Schelee (editors). Lands of the Future, the Future of the Lands: Anthropological Perspectives on Agro-Pastoralism, Investment and Land Use. Berghan: New York. Pp: 201-229.
  • C. Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet and J. Wedekind. 2021. Conclusion. Pastoralists for Future. . In: Gabbert, C.G., J. Galaty, J., Fana Gebresenbet and G. Schelee (editors). Lands of the Future, the Future of the Lands: Anthropological Perspectives on Agro-Pastoralism, Investment and Land Use. Berghan: New York. Pp. 309-317.
  • Fana Gebresenbet. (2020). State-Building, Market Integration and Local Responses in South Omo, Ethiopia. In: Jeremy Lind, Doris Okenwa and Ian Scoones (eds). Land, Investment and Politics: Reconfiguring Africa’s Pastoral Drylands. James Currey. Pp: 122-133.
  • Fana Gebresenbet. (2020). Divergent Terms of Market Integration of Agro-Pastoralists: Marketisation and Distress Selling of Livestock in South Omo, Ethiopia. APRA Working Paper 27 (February 2020).
  • Fana Gebresenbet and B. Kamski. (2020). The Paradox of the Ethiopian Developmental State. Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 37(4): 335-350.
  • Fana Gebresenbet and Firehiwot Sintayehu. (2019). Managing Irregular Migration in Ethiopia: A Case for Positive Rights Centred Policy Framework. Ethiopian Journal of Human Rights. 4(1): 33-59.
  • Dawit Yohannes and Fana Gebresenbet. (2019). Transregional Conflict Crossing the Red Sea: The Horn of Africa. Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 29(1): S. 90–108.
  • Mercy M., Fana G., Yonas T., and Ekal N. (2019). Fundamental Challenges in Academic-Government Partnership in Conflict Research in Pastoral Lowlands of Ethiopia. IDS Bulletin, 50(1): 99-120.
  • Tagel Wondimu and Fana Gebresenbet. (2018). Resourcing Land, Dynamics of Exclusion and Conflict in Maji, Ethiopia. Conflict, Security and Development. 18(6): 547-570.
  • Fana Gebresenbet. (2018). Transforming the Bodi from Pastoralists to Outgrowers: Land and State Capitalism in South Omo, Southwest Ethiopia. In: Akinola O. Adeoye and Henry Wissink (eds.) Trajectory of Land Reform in Post-Colonial African States: The Quest for Sustainable Development and Utilization. Springer International Publishing.
  • Fana Gebresenbet. (2018). Perishable State-Making: Vegetable Trade between Self-Governance and Ethnic Entitlement in Jijiga, Ethiopia. DIIS/GOVSEA Working Paper Series.
  • Fana Gebresenbet. (2016). Land Acquisitions, the Politics of Dispossession and State-Remaking in Gambella, Western Ethiopia. Africa Spectrum, 51(1): 5-28.

 

Yonas Adaye Adeto, Associate professor

 

 

 

 

Yonas Adaye Adeto is an associate professor and former Director of the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) of Addis Ababa University. He earned his Ph.D. in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, UK, Postgraduate Diploma (With Merit) in Research Methods for the Social Sciences, and Postgraduate Diploma in Security Sector Reform. He pursued his BA (With Distinction) in English Literature and Linguistics from Addis Ababa University, his first MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and his second MA in International Relations from Addis Ababa University, Certificate, Trainer (Teacher) Development, College of St. Mark and St. John, Exeter, UK and Cambridge CELTA (British Council/the University of Cambridge).

Yonas A. Adeto (Ph.D.) is a supervisor of four local and one international (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia – Leipzig University, Germany, joint programme) Ph.D. students in the broad area of Peace and Security as well as Global and Area Studies. Yonas A. Adeto supervised over 50 local and 5 international MA students for the past 13 years in the broad areas of Global, Peace, and Security Studies, Trained Diplomats since 2001 collaborating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Keynote speaker/Panelist, on the Theme: “Global Solidarity Against All Forms of Systematic Discrimination, Exclusion and Phobia, Training, Managing Peace and Security in Africa in collaboration with the African Union and GIZ since 2010”, Contributed to the Media (Addis TV, BBC Focus on Africa, CGTN, DW, EBC, ENA, OBN, WALTA, Ethiopian Herald (public) and Maleda (private) newspapers) since 2015, Think Tank for Peace (Member, Ethiopian Ministry of Peace since 2018), Foreign Policy Review Team (Member, Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2018), Council on Foreign Relations (Member, Minister of Foreign Affairs, since July 2019).

Recent publications:

    • Yonas, Adaye (2020) Ethnic Extremism in Ethiopia: Implications for Stability of the Horn of Africa in African Journal on Conflict Resolution.ACCORD, South Africavol. 21 no.2
    • Yonas Adaye (2019)Peacebuilding through peace education in the Horn of Africa: Transformative Cosmopolitan Perspective in Omeje, F (ed.) in Peacebuilding in Contemporary Africa: In search of Alternative Strategies.London: Rutledge (Peer Reviewed andBook Chapter)
    • Yonas, Adaye (2019)State Fragility and Conflict Dynamics in the Horn of Africa in Journal on Conflict Resolution in Africa(ACCORD) vol.19 No.1 pp. 11 –37.
    • Yonas, Adaye (2019)Preventing Violent Extremism in the Horn of Africa: The Case of Ethnic Extremism in Ethiopia (policy paper), European Institute of Peace (EIP).
    • Yonas, Adaye (2018)Africa in Global Security Governance: A Critical Analysis of Ethiopia’s Role in the UN Peacekeeping Operations. Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy, New York. (Peer Reviewed International Journal) Vol. 6 No. 7, pp. 369 –380.
    • Yonas, Adaye and Ezra Abate (2014)Large Scale Agricultural Land Acquisition and Violent Conflict in Gambella (Peer reviewed book chapter)Addis Ababa University.