Academic Staff




Director, Institute 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.
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Academic Director
Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the 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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Regular MA Programme Coordinator
Yonas Tariku is a lecturer 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. He is also a Ph.D. Candidate at IPSS, AAU (2019 to Present).
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.
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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.”
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