An open letter to the international community and to the media From Meskerem Abera Ethiopia It is now 33 years since Ethiopia adopted and institutionalized ethnicity-elite based politics, culture, constitution, and administrative structure as its model of governance. The political ecology of the country, thus, became full of competing, irreconcilable and mutually exclusive ethnic interests prone to recurrent conflicts. This system of divide and rule sharpened and widened ethnic polarization, ethnic mutual mistrust, theft, graft, corruption, moral degradation, hunger, hyperinflation, a sense of hopelessness, treasonous acts as well as country-wide conflicts. Ethiopia has never faced such horrendous challenges. By all … Continue reading Brokering Peace in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities