Ethnic Conflicts and their Impacts on Livelihood System

Real practices of ethnic based federalism political system of the country at its grass root level is not in a position to mitigate ethnic conflicts and settle peace and securities among different ethnic groups as per its presumed goals, objectives and roles since its adoption of 1991; due to the newly created and articulated high prevalence of desires to have wide area of administration boundaries, motives to consolidate strong power over the neighboring other ethnic groups among local administrators, political leaders and other elites of the conflicting ethnic groups; which resulted in multi dimensional losses. The policy implication of this study is that unless these disastrous ethnic conflicts are treated and addressed properly from disaster risk science and sustainable development point of view, the formulation and implementation processes of every project, plan and programs in the areas may be critical and fruitless due to the fact that sustainable peace, security and stability are the primacy for all persistent and sustainable development issues.

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Diploma in Business administration from Gondar university, B.A in management from Bahir Dar University, Msc in Disaster risk science and sustainable development from Bahir Dar university (jointly with Arizona University-USA), and advanced Master(Msc) in Governance and development from Antwerp University, Belgium.