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Title: | Conflicts and conflict resolution in the Horn of Africa: toward the study of regional peace and security |
Author: | Olika, Tafesse |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities (ISSN 1810-4487) |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 1-24 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Northeast Africa |
Subjects: | political conflicts State-society relationship |
External link: | https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ejossah/article/view/72253 |
Abstract: | This article examines the phenomenon of conflict in the Horn of Africa. It identifies and discusses political factors as the root cause of this problem. Much of the literature on the subject concentrates on conflict markers such as ethnicity, region, religion, etc. This understanding of the source of conflicts has the effect of obscuring the primacy of politics as a major root cause of the problem. The approach of academic research on the conflict problematic must not be based on the horizontal and asymmetrical society-society relations; but rather on the asymmetrical and undemocratic State-society relations. The article concludes that conflict studies giving little or no attention to the role of the State and its institutions as a major root cause to conflicts and instabilities within and between States in the Horn of Africa would find it difficult to suggest practical and realistic strategies to cope with the problem of peace and security in the subregion. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |