Hung up on the Horn of Africa
    16 September. 2010 (Dan Simpson) -
    "I take full responsibility for my own part
    in what has occurred in the Horn, having
    served as U.S. ambassador and special
    envoy to Somalia during the relatively
    ruinous years of 1994 and 1995, but
    there is a fundamental problem...More
Ethiopia: Giving peace a chance in South Omo
TURMI, 21 May 2009 (IRIN) - Zuga Sherdo grew up in a community
that was constantly fighting its neighbours in southern Ethiopia.

    As a young Malee man, he lived through
    conflict between his community and the
    Bena, Tsemai and Ari, in which his uncle's
    family killed his brother and his father's clan
    killed his mother's relatives... More
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Violence, fear and confusion: welcome
to the Horn of Africa
Peter Beaumont

At a Peace Forum, Seeking Solutions
to a Holocaust in the Horn
By Doug Mcgill

The Ethio-Eritrean Future : Some
Reflections
Mesfin Araya

An Open Letter to the Organic Intellectuals
accross the Horn of Africa  
Dr. Mesfin Araya

In Ethiopia, elders dissolve a crisis the
traditional way

Democratic: Indigenous systems of
conflict resolution in Oromia, Ethiopia
"..There also exist various traditional institutions in
the country that have their own customary methods
to settle conflicts. In this regard, the Gadaa system
of conflict resolution is one that deserves attention.
This institution is well respected by the Oromo
society at large in the country. If this indigenous
knowledge can be harnessed, then it is thought
that it can be a means through which sustainable
development can be achieved......
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No guns at Ethiopian peace talks








By Elizabeth Blunt (BBC)
The tribes of the South Omo Valley in Ethiopia
recently held a gathering to discuss shared concerns
and invited their neighbours from the Kenyan and
Sudan borders....
More
Building for Peace in the Horn of Africa:
Diplomacy and Beyond
United States Inistitute of Peace
28 June 1999 | Special Report No. 50
John Prendergast
"..In terms of sheer human life, more is at stake in resolving the wars in
the Horn of Africa than anywhere else in the world. Besides the fact
that the Horn hosts the deadliest cluster of conflicts globally, there are
also increasing incidences of starvation, slavery, child abduction, child
soldiers, and ethnic cleansing, as well as the highest rate of population
displacement in the world....
More
Who will make a bridge
over our troubled water
and its legacy?
By Alex Birhanu

How Horn of Africa
brothers fell out




"..The two men were
undoubtedly close, but
brothers can also be intensely,
destructively competitive. The
relationship was always a
stormy one, with each side
brooding over perceived
slights, chafing over their
enforced intimacy."
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Somalia:
Understanding the
History of Violence





Ahmed A. Abdullahi
(Kamil)
" For the past two decades,
various clans and sub clans
have been dead locked in a
violent struggle for power and
dominance. "
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Factional War, And Peace
25 October. 2010 (STRATEGY PAGE) - Eritrea continues to
wage war on several fronts. Its forces face Ethiopia along their
disputed border. The proxy war in Somalia continues. Though the
border incident with Djibouti is being resolved, trouble with....
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What Ethiopian-Eritrean "Friendship"?
    28 March, 2011 (Saleh "Gadi" Johar) -
    "At times, even those who seem to
    embrace the diversity of our population
    fall in the trap of wrong conclusions.
    They assume that there are two
    monolithic Ethiopian and Eritrean nations
    and they make generalized statements—
    for example, the assumed enmity
between Ethiopian and Eritreans! Of course there is...More

The Role of the Diaspora in Enhancing the Possibility of
Peace in the Horn of Africa By Seyoum Tesfaye
Three-Day U.S. Conference Spotlights Ethiopia's....
    11 April, 2010 (Peter
    Clottey) - "The organizers
    believe that development in
    Ethiopia, the stability and its
    viability, as well as peace
    and economic development
    in the region are tied to
    how Addis Ababa and the
international donor community can work together to address
previously unmet challenges ..
..More